Table of Contents

Introduction: Sweet Poison
1: 'My Love is as a Fever': Medical Constructions of Desire in Early Modern England
2: 'A Thirsty Womb': Lovesickness, Green Sickness, Hysteria, and Uterine Fury
3: Beyond Ophelia: The Anatomy of Female Melancholy
4: Lovesickness and Neoplatonism
5: 'Griefs Will Have their Vent': Physical and Psychological Remedies for Lovesickness
6: Menstruation, Misogyny, and the Cure for Love
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Lesel Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.

Reviews

an important contribution to the flourishing field of the history of emotions
*Katharine Craik, Times Literary Supplement*