Women on the Verge: The Culture of Neurasthenia in Nineteenth-century America
- ISBN-10
- 0937031259
- ISBN-13
- 9780937031254
- Series
- Women on the Verge
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 85
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for
- Authors
- Katherine Elmire Williams, Zachary Ross, Amanda Glesmann
Description
The books essays explore the phenomenon of neurasthenia, a "nervous" illness that reached epidemic proportions during the last two decades of the 19th century. The relationship between paintings by notable artists as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Edmund Tarbell and a large body of literature, both literary and scientific, is examined, as is the relationship between the "high art" of the painting and manifestations of this illness in advertising and popular art.
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- 2001-11-21
- 294 pages
- Paperback
- Duke University Press
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