Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Medicine and the Cult of the Thinker, 1750-89; 2. The Ardor for Study: Inwardness and the Zealous Cerebralist; 3. Passions and the Philosophe; 4. Corporality and the Life of the Mind in Voltaire and Diderot; 5. Melancholy, Genius, and Intellectual Identity: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël; 6. Refashioning Intellectual Pathologies in the Wake of the Revolution; Epilogue. Not So Singular, After All?; Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary
Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Anne C. Vila shows how the ""suffering scholar"" syndrome deeply influenced debates about the consequences of book-learning on both the individual body and the body politic
Analysis
Cultural Studies
European History
History
Literature
World History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2018)
