D. (Diedelot) Denessen

Diedelot Denessen researches lovesickness in the Dutch Enlightenment culture of psychosomatic medicine. She considers lovesickness as a concrete example to illustrate how ideas of the mind-body interaction changed over the course of the eighteenth century. She uses a broad, interdisciplinary source selection, including medical texts, theatre, poetry, and visual arts. She examines how these sources interact with ideas about lovesickness, and associated ideas about medicine, the female body and gender.