Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (1st ed. 2024) (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
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- Synopsis
- Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.
- Copyright:
- 2024
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- ISBN-13:
- 9783031398964
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031398957
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Addition:
- 10/31/23
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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