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Once more , as in the days when his writing had had a daily freshness and wonder and promise for him , he was conscious of that new ease and mastery and exhilaration and release , The air of the place seemed to hold more oxygen ; as if his own specific gravity had changed , his very tread seemed less ponderable . We 'll visit Stonehenge during the pagan festival of Beltane . Moving from hysteria to anorexia , dyspepsia to depression , neurasthenia to schizophrenia , we will track actual and fictional invalid women through an endless succession of water cures , rest cures , talking cures , forced feedings , sexual surgeries , electric shock therapies , and pharmaceutical interventions . On some aspect of deviance in Victorian writing . There was exhilaration in the swift , easy processes . To find out more , be sure to check out the King 's literature faculty here and course offerings in literature and film here . You should use the assignment as an exercise in framing and expressing your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , add context , debate . Library ; Franklin , the library 's on-line catalogue ; and the Chadwyck-Healey database of Literature Online , including an electronic archive of English Drama , available through the library to Penn faculty and students . The purpose of the assignment is twofold : you should use the writing as an exercise in articulating your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , debate .