Fear in the medical and literary imagination, medieval to modern : dreadful passions / Daniel McCann, Claire McKechnie-Mason, editors.

[London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

xi, 261 pages ; 23 cm.

Introduction: a dreadful start / Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason -- Dreadful health: fear and 'sowle-hele' in The prickynge of love / Daniel McCann -- Without a cause: fear in The Anatomy of melancholy / Mary Ann Lund -- 'The gloom of anxiety': fear in Victorian reading / Pamela K. Gilbert -- 'Frightened and rather feverish': the fear of pain in childbirth / Joanna Bourke -- Fresh terror, new horror: fear and the unfamiliar in the Old English Exodus / Andy Orchard -- Damned above ground: dreadful despair in Elizabethan and Stuart literature / Elizabeth Hunter -- Fear, phobia and the Victorian psyche / Sally Shuttleworth -- The mass dread of quietude and the British anti-noise crusade 1919-1939 / Neil Pemberton -- The fearful body in contemporary medical television drama and medical case reports / Martin Willis -- Ending on a note of fear / Priscilla Wald.

Includes bibliographical references and index.