Preface
Hiding and Seeking Distress
1. Speaking through the Body
2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum
3. The Mysterious Leap
4. Literary Patients
Metaphors of Distress
5. "A Strange Sympathy betwixt Soul and Body": Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
6. Nerves: At the Interstices of Physiology and Psychology: Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin (1867)
7. "A Sick Spot on the Body of our Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1900)
8. "Legs Turned to Butter": Arthur Miller, Broken Glass (1994)
9. Substance and Shadow: Brian O'Doherty, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. (1992)
10. Shell Shock: Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)
11. Outing the Distress
Notes
Bibliography
Index