Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. One “A Multitude of Causes” The Mediation of the Nerves and Medical Semiotics 35
5. Two “An Uncertain Disease” The Matter of Nostalgia 74
6. Three. Nostalgia’s Counteraesthetic Force in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory 113
7. Four. Reading Motions Poetry and Pathologies of Volition around 1800 148
8. Notes 209
9. Works Cited 261
10. Acknowledgments 285
11. Index 289