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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Sebastian Rousseau is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom. Early life and education George Rousseau was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University, where he obtained his doctorate.
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- Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective (1994) (817)
- Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) (159)
- Sexual dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (1994) (138)
- The ferment of knowledge: Index (1980) (97)
- Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (1988) (88)
- The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science (1982) (72)
- Herculine Barbin. Being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century hermaphrodite (1981) (57)
- Gout: The Patrician Malady (1999) (57)
- Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004) (55)
- The knotted subject: hysteria and its discontents (2000) (54)
- Social uses of science (1980) (45)
- The prospect before her: a history of women in western Europe, volume one, 1500–1800 (1997) (39)
- Exoticism in the enlightenment (1991) (37)
- Depression's forgotten genealogy: notes towards a history of depression (2000) (34)
- Literature and Medicine: The State of the Field (1981) (31)
- Nerves, spirits, and fibres: towards defining the origins of sensibility. (1976) (27)
- The adventures of Peregrine Pickle (2014) (25)
- Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840. Barbara Maria Stafford (1989) (25)
- “Stung into action ...”: Medicine, professionalism, and the news (1998) (24)
- From the mind into the body: the cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms (1995) (22)
- Literature and Medicine: Towards a Simultaneity of Theory and Practice (2010) (19)
- This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (1968) (19)
- Melancholy and society (1993) (19)
- The ferment of knowledge: Psychology (1980) (19)
- Organic form : the life of an idea (1972) (16)
- Children and Sexuality (2007) (15)
- Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003) (15)
- The healing arts: an Oxford illustrated anthology (1996) (14)
- Coleridge on dreaming: romanticism, dreams, and the medical imagination (2000) (14)
- Literature and Science: The State of the Field (1978) (14)
- The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition in the Era of Celebrity (2012) (13)
- The Augustan milieu : essays presented to Louis A. Landa (1973) (13)
- Nineteenth-century writings on homosexuality: a sourcebook (2000) (13)
- Children and sexuality : from the Greeks to the Great War (2007) (12)
- Science and the discovery of the imagination in Enlightened England. (1969) (12)
- ‘Tis Nature's Fault: The Pursuit of Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century: “Utterly Confused Category” and/or Rich Repository? (1988) (12)
- Goldsmith : the critical heritage (1974) (11)
- The enduring legacy : Alexander Pope tercentenary essays (1989) (11)
- "Wicked Whiston" and the Scriblerians: Another Ancients-Modern Controversy (2021) (10)
- On romanticism, science and medicine (1993) (10)
- ‘Brainomania’: Brain, Mind and Soul in the Long Eighteenth Century (2008) (10)
- Creative Malady. Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. George Pickering (1977) (10)
- The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe (2013) (10)
- Cultural History in a New Key: Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve (1991) (10)
- The language of the heart, 1600–1750 (1998) (10)
- The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man: The Structuralist Controversy. Richard Macksey , Eugenio Donato (1971) (10)
- Syphilis in Shakespeare's England (1996) (9)
- Tobias Smollett: Bicentennial Essays Presented to Lewis M. Knapp (1971) (9)
- The languages of psyche : mind and body in Enlightenment thought : Clark Library lectures 1985-1986 (1990) (9)
- Enlightenment Crossings: Pre- And Post-Modern Discourses : Anthropological (1991) (8)
- Nerves, Spirits and Fibres: Toward the Origins of Sensibility (1975) (2004) (8)
- Jane Austen and the body: `the picture of health' (1995) (8)
- Coleridge's Choleras: Cholera Morbus, Asiatic Cholera, and Dysentery in Early Nineteenth-Century England (2003) (8)
- Political gout: dissolute patients, deceitful physicians, and other blue devils (2009) (7)
- Voices Calling for Reform: The Royal Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century — Martin Folkes, John Hill, and William Stukeley (1999) (7)
- Pre-and Post-Modern Discourses: A Three-Volume Set:@@@Enlightenment Crossings [Volume I: Anthropological]@@@Enlightenment Borders [Volume II: Medical, Scientific]@@@Perilous Enlightenment [Volume III: Sexual, Historical]. (1992) (6)
- The Avatars of Thrice Great Hermes: An Approach to Romanticism. (1984) (6)
- Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (1998) (6)
- The Triumph of Culture: Eighteenth-Century Perspectives (1974) (6)
- Larrey: surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard (1975) (5)
- Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (1999) (5)
- The Kiss of Death and Cabal of Dons: Blackmail and Grooming in Georgian Oxford (2008) (5)
- Proust: the body and literary form (2001) (4)
- Eighteenth-century Studies: In Honor of Donald F. Hyde (1970) (4)
- Smollett's Acidum Vagum (1967) (3)
- Sexual Underworld of the Enlightenment (1988) (3)
- Discourses of the Nerve (1989) (3)
- Matt Bramble and the Sulphur Controversy in the XVIIIth Century: Medical Background of Humphry Clinker (1967) (3)
- Mandeville and Europe: Medicine and Philosophy (1975) (3)
- Whose enlightenment? Not man's: the case of Michel Foucault. [Essay review]. (1972) (3)
- Temperament and the Long Shadow of Nerves in the Eighteenth Century (2007) (3)
- Writing as Pathology, Poison, or Cure Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Journal intime (2002) (3)
- ‘Originated Neurology’: Nerves, Spirits and Fibers, 1969–2004 (2004) (3)
- Ingenious Pain: Fiction, History, Biography, and the Miraculous Eighteenth Century (2001) (3)
- Revolution in science: I. Bernard Cohen, (Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard Univ. Press. 1987), xviii + 711 pp., $25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper (1988) (3)
- Coleridge’s Dreaming Gut (2005) (2)
- History: A polymath rediscovered (2010) (2)
- Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria (2003) (2)
- The much-maligned doctor. "Sir" John Hill (1707-1775). (1970) (2)
- Science, Culture, and the Imagination: Enlightenment Configurations (2003) (2)
- BERNARD MANDEVILLE AND THE FIRST EARL OF MACCLESFIELD (1971) (2)
- [Abdominal pregnancy. An autochtonous case with full-term living normal infant]. (1991) (2)
- Made from the Stuff of Saints: Chateaubriand's Rene and Custine's Search for a Homosexual Identity (2000) (2)
- ‘You Have Made me Tear the Veil From Those Most Secret Feelings’: John Addington Symonds Amidst the Children (2007) (2)
- Envoi: The Afterlife of Maladies Imaginaires (2011) (2)
- `Splitters and lumpers': Samuel Johnson's tics, gesticulations and reverie revisited * (2009) (2)
- Foucault and the Fortunes of Queer Theory (2000) (2)
- The Rhetoric of Science: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Imagery in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry. William Powell Jones (1967) (2)
- Technology: Together, bit by bit (2011) (1)
- Essay Review: Science and Antiquarianism: Dr Woodward's Shield: History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England (1979) (1)
- Apologies for interdiction: the homosexual question. (1990) (1)
- Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England. Michael MacDonaldTrial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Roger SmithMadhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era. Andrew Scull (1983) (1)
- Cultures of Melancholia in Late Capitalism—A Reflection Response to Discussion by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein (2002) (1)
- Oliver Goldsmith : The Critical Heritage (2013) (1)
- The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope Tercentenary Essays (1990) (1)
- No Sex Please, We’re American : Erotophobia, Liberation, and Cultural History (2018) (1)
- The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological (2013) (1)
- Writing the History of the Emotions (2004) (1)
- Book Review:Reason and Nature in the Eighteenth Century R. W. Harris (1970) (1)
- ‘Strange Pathology’: Nerves and the Hysteria Diagnosis in Early Modern Europe (1993) (2004) (1)
- Medicine and the body (2007) (1)
- A Medical Case History of Alexander Pope (1968) (1)
- Are There Really Men of Both "Cultures"? (1972) (1)
- Science and the Discovery of the Imagination (1969) (2004) (1)
- Perilous Shandy@@@Laurence Sterne as Satirist: A Reading of "Tristram Shandy" (1971) (1)
- History: Science and sensibility (2011) (1)
- The Letters and Papers of Sir John Hill 1714-1775 (1986) (1)
- The land of hunger (1997) (1)
- Privilege, Power and Sexual Abuse in Georgian Oxford (2007) (1)
- The Relations of Literature and Science: An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1880-1980. Walter Schatzberg , Ronald A. Waite , Jonathan K. Johnson (1989) (1)
- Two Kinds of Knowledge at the Crossroads: Literature and Science, Literature and Medicine, As Types of Cultural Understanding (2007) (1)
- Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (2019) (1)
- Book Review:Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry Ekbert Faas (1991) (1)
- War and Peace: Some Representations of Nostalgia and Adventure in the Eighteenth Century (1998) (1)
- The debate about historical culture and the status of the history of science. (1985) (1)
- Twentieth century interpretations of the Rape of the Lock : a collection of critical essays (1969) (1)
- The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-75. (1983) (1)
- Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1978) (1)
- Policing the anus: stuprum and sodomy according to Paolo Zacchia’s forensic medicine (2013) (1)
- Is Laurence Sterne’s Protagonist Tristram Shandy Embodied, Enacted or Extended? (2019) (1)
- Michael R Finn, Proust: the body and literary form , Cambridge Studies in French 59, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xiii, 207, £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-64189-6). (2001) (1)
- Book Review:The Letters of Tobias Smollett, M. D. Lewis M. Knapp (1972) (0)
- Forethought: A Trade for Light and the State of the Art (2017) (0)
- Organic Form: The Life of an Idea (1976) (0)
- The inflected voice: attraction and curative properties (2017) (0)
- An Era of Intermingling (1972) (0)
- The Gates of Memory by Geoffrey Keynes (1984) (0)
- Gut-Brain Axis And Behaviour (2016) (0)
- History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (review) (2000) (0)
- Dr. Thomas Thompson (1968) (0)
- Book Note: The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth Century England (1997) (0)
- Book Review:Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology Michael S. Kearns (1991) (0)
- Experimentalism Across the Disciplines (2006) (0)
- Notoriety’s Public Interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh (2018) (0)
- POPE AND SIR BERKELEY LUCY (1969) (0)
- Wolf Lepenies, Melancholy and society , transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5). (1993) (0)
- The Doctor as Man of Letters: Mid-Georgian Transformations (2018) (0)
- Robert A Erickson, The language of the heart, 1600–1750 , New Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, pp. xxi, 273, £34.95 (0-8122-3394-8). (1998) (0)
- Eloge: Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 18 February 1894-9 March 1981 (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-Century Literature Paula R. Backscheider (1980) (0)
- R S Downie (ed.), The healing arts: an Oxford illustrated anthology , Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 334, illus., £18.99 (0-19-262319-2). (1996) (0)
- I. Circulation and Transfusion (1968) (0)
- Writings on the Margins of Pope@@@Oxford History of English Literature: Volume VIII: The Mid-Eighteenth Century@@@English Verse Satire: 1590-1765@@@Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems@@@The Art of Alexander Pope (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Poems of Science John Heath-Stubbs, Phillips Salman (1985) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Alexander Pope and Astronomy (1968) (0)
- Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe (review) (2004) (0)
- Satan's harvest (2005) (0)
- Robert Richardson, Larrey: surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard, revised edition, London, Quiller Press, 2000 (first published 1974), pp. x, 269, illus., £16.95 (hardback 1-899163-60-3). (2002) (0)
- Johannes Fabricius, Syphilis in Shakespeare's England , London and Bristol, PA, Jessica Kingsley, 1994, pp. xvi, 296, illus., £22.50 (paperback 1-85302-270-5). (1996) (0)
- Book Review:Writing about Science Mary Elizabeth Bowen, J. A. Mazzeo (1980) (0)
- Sensibility reconsidered G J Barker-Benfield, The culture of sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth century Britain, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. xxxiv, 520, illus., $49.95 (0-226-03713-4). (1995) (0)
- News and Notes: Autobiography of a Schizophrenic (1951) and the postwar anti-psychiatric movement: 1946—51 (2008) (0)
- A cultural history of impotence Angus McLaren Impotence: A Cultural History (2007) (0)
- Crawford prefers to see the relationship of science and empire as one of “coproduction.” This volume differs in approach from standard accounts of the history of cinchona (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Samuel Johnson and the New Science Richard B. Schwartz (1972) (0)
- III. The Mary Toft Case (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Shelley's Venomed Melody Nora Crook, Derek Guiton (1989) (0)
- Solitude and Senescence (2021) (0)
- ‘THIS GRAND AND SACRED SOLEMNITY …’: OF CORONATIONS, REPUBLICS, AND POETRY (2008) (0)
- Essay Review: Dr Woodward's Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England by Joseph M. Levine (1979) (0)
- Writing the history of the emotions: Essay Review. (2004) (0)
- Piero Camporesi, The land of hunger , trans. Tania Croft-Murray with the assistance of Claire Foley, Oxford, Polity Press, 1996, pp. 223, £39.50, $49.95 (0-7456-0888-4). (1997) (0)
- Pre- and post-modern discourses (1991) (0)
- SHARON RUSTON (ed.), Literature and Science: Essays and Studies 2008 for the English Association. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008. xi+176 pp., ISBN 978-1-84384-178-4. (2009) (0)
- Martin Wallen, City of health, fields of disease: revolutions in the poetry, medicine, and philosophy of romanticism , The Nineteenth Century Series, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. x, 202, £40.00 (hardback 0-7546-3542-2). (2006) (0)
- Six new Hill letters. (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets Desmond King-Hele (1987) (0)
- Book Review (2006) (0)
- II. The Small in Nature (1968) (0)
- Book reviews (2004) (0)
- John Gregory's Writings on Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine (review) (2000) (0)
- Book Review:The Children of Frankenstein: A Primer on Modern Technology and Human Values Herbert J. Muller (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Royal College of Physicians of London. Portraits. Catalogue II Gordon Wolstenholme, John F. Kerslake (1978) (0)
- John Neubauer's Cultural Geographies (2003) (0)
- TWO NEW PEPYS LETTERS (1968) (0)
- Grieving for our children Robert Woods Children Remember (2007) (0)
- Sensibility reconsidered. Essay review. (1995) (0)
- Thomas Mann: Eros and literature (1998) (0)
- Gabriel Weston, Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story (2010) (0)
- On medicine and cultural history in the European enlightenment (1994) (0)
- IV. Color and Light (1968) (0)
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography by James Lees-Milne (1983) (0)
- I. The Old and the New (1968) (0)
- The Critical Heritage: Smollett. (1988) (0)
- What's Wrong with Our Teaching of English?. (1968) (0)
- Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne (review) (2001) (0)
- Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Smallpox and the literary imagination 1660–1820 (2008) (0)
- Ephebi, Epigoni, and Fornacalia: some meditations on the contemporary historiography of the eighteenth century. (1979) (0)
- Edward Shorter, From the mind into the body: the cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms , New York, Free Press, 1994, pp. ix, 268, $22.95 (2-928666-2). (1995) (0)
- TOBIAS SMOLLETT AND ROGER DIBON: THE CASE OF THE ELUSIVE TRANSLATION (1971) (0)
- [The Pope and medicine]. (1968) (0)
- V. The "Mummius" Episode (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century M. M. Slaughter (1984) (0)
- Doyens of Enlightenment (1997) (0)
- Book Review:The Royal Society: Concept and Creation Margery Purver (1968) (0)
- John Wiltshire, Jane Austen and the body: ‘the picture of health’ , Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xiii, 251, £30.00 (0–521–41476–8). (1995) (0)
- Le Cat and the Physiology of Negroes (2021) (0)
- Discourses of the Nerve (1989) (2004) (0)
- The many faces of Newton (2002) (0)
- Richard Sha, Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832 (2010) (0)
- Book Review:The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century N. Katherine Hayles (1988) (0)
- Discourses of mood and depression. (1997) (0)
- (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) ‘Pictures in the Mind’: A Personal Account (2014) (0)
- Tobias Smollett: Doctor by Design, Writer by Choice (1971) (0)
- Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve (1991) (2004) (0)
- ARNOLD AND THE CLASSICS (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance: Essays to Honor Walter Pagel Allen G. Debus (1975) (0)
- Alienation of the Artist (1969) (0)
- Book Review:The Electrical Imagination: Electricity in Literature and Music Brian Coleman (1977) (0)
- The Neurology of Persecution (2010) (0)
- The Biographer’s Tale: Second Thoughts About ‘Filter Hill’ (2018) (0)
- III. Grottoes and Geology (1968) (0)
- Harvard's holdings on Laurence Sterne. (1968) (0)
- CONTROVERSY OR COLLUSION? THE “LADY VANE” TRACTS (1972) (0)
- Doctrines of Optimism, 1727-1827, and the Fallout of Enlightenment (2001) (0)
- Psychology: Giants on coke (2011) (0)
- “I have nothing more to tell you, dear doctor”: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confession to Emile Zola (2023) (0)
- Book reviews (2002) (0)
- Gerhild Scholz Williams and Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., eds. Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe (2004) (0)
- Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) âPictures in the Mindâ (2014) (0)
- Erotica and the Enlightenment (review) (1992) (0)
- Anthony Heilbut, Thomas Mann: Eros and literature , London, Papermac, 1997, pp. xiii, 638, illus., £12.00 (0-333-67447-2). (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- John Wesley's "Primitive Physic" (1747). (1968) (0)
- Apologies for interdiction: the homosexual question. Essay review. (1990) (0)
- The Anthologist as Critic as Missionary (1996) (0)
- UCLA historical journal (2012) (0)
- Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century (review) (1997) (0)
- Book Review:From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature Roslynn D. Haynes (1996) (0)
- Book Review (2003) (0)
- Fame and Fortune: Sir John Hill and London Life in the 1750s (2017) (0)
- IV. Pope and "Vomition" (1968) (0)
- 22. Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births: Some Enlightenment Luciniades (2015) (0)
- Tim Parks, Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- John Armstrong's ‘The Art of Preserving Health’: Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice – By Adam Budd (2012) (0)
- Nerves and Racism: Le Cat’s Neurology of Racism (1973) (2004) (0)
- Gerold Sedlmayr, The Discourse of Madness in Britain, 1790–1815: Medicine, Politics, Literature (2013) (0)
- A Prescription for Papers and Pictures (1975) (0)
- David Herbert: Victorian Editor of Smollett (1975) (0)
- Pineapples, Pregnancy, and Pica: Nerves and the ‘Mother’s Imagination’ (1972) (2004) (0)
- Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century. By ILDIKO CSENGEI. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. 280 p. £50 (hb). ISBN 978‐0‐230‐30844‐2. (2013) (0)
- Magic, science, and the "New World" origins of Freud`s Fetishes (1993) (0)
- Writing & Not Writing about Music@@@The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (1973) (0)
- Margins, Underworlds, Absences (1989) (0)
- NEIL VICKERS, Coleridge and the doctors, 1795-1806 (Oxford English Monographs). Oxford: Clarendon press, 2004. 198 pp., ISBN 0199271178. (2005) (0)
- Book Review:Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England Joseph M. Levine (1978) (0)
- Nerves and Nymphomania: Bienville and Female Sensibility (1982) (2004) (0)
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