Gentlemen’s Spleen
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Hysterical Men, 27 August 2009
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
by Mark Micale.
Harvard, 366 pp., £19.95, December 2008,978 0 674 03166 1 Show More
by Mark Micale.
Harvard, 366 pp., £19.95, December 2008,
“... was even a sign of distinction and ‘sensibility’ that in no way compromised their virility. (George Cheyne, writing in 1773 in The English Malady, went so far as to connect ‘nervous diseases’ to the progress of civilisation.) This plainly contradicts Micale’s main argument. ‘In Great Britain for a full century following the 1688 revolution, the ... ”