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Condition: clean copy. Content: This is the story of Bells' intense relationship with his wife, a deaf woman from an aristocratic Boston family, and chronicles the many discoveries that paved the way for future technological innovation. 468 pages, sources, index.

The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints—hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period. He examines the assumption, implicit in medical thinking at the time, that the nervous body—unlike its… Read more