... contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how white queer communities have long leveraged...

... initially practiced his rest cure on nervous Civil War soldiers. Mitchell ‘‘makes history corporeal, siting specific psychic moments and historical events in bodily wounds Because these wounds were invisible, Mitchell worried about the veracity of neuras- thenics and his ability to read them, eventually...

... later physiological treatments for neuroses, such as rest cures, diet cures, electrical cures, and water cures, because it does not require an administering doctor and, concomitantly, does not involve a monetary transaction. On the later treatments, see Caplan 1998 : 45–60. 16 Holmes’s proposal...

... Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism .” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26 , no. 1 : 69 – 91 . Stiles Anne . 2015 . “ Christian Science versus the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden .” Modern Fiction Studies 61...

... by education a healthy interest in subjects of serious study or a taste for what is best in literature’’ NRH 674). The narrator of ‘‘The Yellow Wall- paper subjected to the enforced ‘‘rest’’ of a ‘‘cure’’ for depression and prevented from exercising whatever interest she may have had in ‘‘the best...

... of the 1890s as primarily physical in origin. She debunks the long-­ standing theory that Wharton endured S. Weir Mitchell’s infamous “rest cure” (he was actually abroad at the time of her alleged treatment) and downplays what the writer herself sometimes referred to as “neurasthe- nia...

..., but Reeve—including his extensive support system and positive media image—focuses a great deal of cultural, economic, and racial capital on creating an optimistic narrative of cure. At the 1996 Academy Awards, for example, Reeve urged Con- gress to fund research intended ‘‘to fix people like me4 An adver...

... individual raced characters and studying the infrastructural composition of built and natural environments. We cannot find Reg because he is the false promise of a cure, and there can be no cure originating from within a raced individual. Like Henrietta Lacks, Reg’s Black body is valuable not as life...

... owner who is pursuing a rest cure as far away from city life as possible. Almost as soon as he enters the Gray home outside Tahlequah, his preconceived notions about Native people and the territory collapse. The more he and Dannie talk, the more he realizes his ignorance, and the more she teases him...

... survive him. These acts of self-fashioning—the one obsessive and irritating to his publishers, the other bordering on paranoia—set the stage for the rest of the story that Anesko tells so well, as first the James estate and then the Master’s monopolistic biographer, Leon Edel, went on to behave...

... in 1992 to attend a conference on racist violence. But he finds some solace in his memories of St. Louis, inspired by the music he listens to while the rest of the passengers sleep: Fontella Bass, Chuck Berry, and Ike and Tina Turner. ‘‘Lis...

... the inmate but the citizen from becoming ‘‘a man’’ by implicitly denying ‘‘he had a soul15 Iftheprisonerhad a soul, he could be saved; he could be controlled. And the conditions of all citizens could be improved. For the Puritans, misdeeds could be punished, not cured; Fuller uses the Puritan legacy...

..., insects, epidemics, squatters, convicts, and alleged revolutionaries. The government’s confidence in containing this surplus, however, rests on a fundamental méconnaissance of the composition of the ex- terior. While the state has distinguished a viable threat—on Smokey Mountain indeed resides...

... of and comment upon the . . . imperatives of neoliberalism” (Johnson and McRuer 2014 : 137). But if the ideas about ability and normality on which crip theory rests are only a century old and if cripistemology is a twenty-first-century move (131), we need new tools to pursue such questions in the past. How...

... ends” (CPr, 382, 383).12 A 1946 review of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry foregrounds Reinhold Niebuhr’s “attention . . . to the fact that the cure for international incompatibilities is not diplomacy but contrition. Nor is it permissible to select the wrongs for which to be contrite; we won’t...

... was ‘‘violent in bodily motions, leapings, strainings, and strange agitations, scarcely to be held in bounds by the strength of three or four 6 As pastor, Willard was charged with bringing Knapp back ‘‘in bounds’’ by determining the cause and proper cure of her illness. After consulting with a physician who...

... symptomatic vacuousness6 Hence, in Buell’s view, a different disaster with no ecological implications would have served the plot just as well. Such arguments, however, have validity only if one iso- lates the Nyodene D. incident from the rest of the novel as the only point of engagement with technological...

...”— attacks prosecuted not only through the homiletics of commencement addresses but also in numerous editorials and articles in professional journals—were developments such as an explosion of advertisements in periodicals and other venues for “patent” medicines offering miracle cures, which...

... that insistence is the measure of achievement and that all truthmustbedark.Principallythroat,sophisticationisasital- ways has been—at the antipodes from the init- ial great truths. ‘‘Part of it was crawling, part of it was about to crawl, the rest was torpid in its lair In the short...

... points out Tom’s desire to trade chores with the enslaved boy, Jim, so that Tom can go to the water pump, where the mixed company of “white, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were . . . resting, trading playthings, quarreling, fighting, skylarking” (quoted in Fishkin 1994 , 33). Fishkin mentions...