Narratives Of Women S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth Century Novel
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Narratives Of Women S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth Century Novel
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Author : Melissa Rampelli
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2023-10-13
Narratives Of Women S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth Century Novel written by Melissa Rampelli and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Narratives Of Women S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth Century Novel
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Author : Melissa Rampelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Narratives Of Women S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth Century Novel written by Melissa Rampelli and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Medical Muses
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Author : Asti Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-07-18
Medical Muses written by Asti Hustvedt and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-18 with History categories.
A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian 'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into the extent to which doctors, patients and diseases, both then and now, are products of their time' Sunday Times In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.
Ventriloquized Bodies
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Author : Janet L. Beizer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1994
Ventriloquized Bodies written by Janet L. Beizer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel
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Author : Lyn Pykett
language : en
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Release Date : 2011
The Nineteenth Century Sensation Novel written by Lyn Pykett and has been published by Northcote House Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
May Sinclair
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Author : Michele K. Troy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
May Sinclair written by Michele K. Troy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
May Sinclair was a central figure in the modernist movement, whose contribution has long been underacknowledged. A woman of both modern and Victorian impulses, a popular novelist who also embraced modernist narrative techniques, Sinclair embodied the contradictions of her era. The contributors to this collection, the first on Sinclair's career and writings, examine these contradictions, tracing their evolution over the span of Sinclair's professional life as they provide insights into Sinclair's complex and enigmatic texts. In doing so, they engage with the cultural and literary phenomena Sinclair herself critiqued and influenced: the evolving literary marketplace, changing sexual and social mores, developments in the fields of psychology, the women's suffrage movement, and World War I. Sinclair not only had her finger on the pulse of the intellectual and social challenges of her time, but also she was connected through her writing with authors located in diverse regions of literary modernism's social web, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Charlotte Mew, and Dorothy Richardson. The volume is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the political, social, and literary currents of the modernist period.
Reading For Health
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Author : Erika Wright
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Reading For Health written by Erika Wright and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional “therapeutic” form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of “health”—what Wright refers to as a “hygienic” narrative—both in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.
Sensation Novels And Domestic Minds
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Author : Mathilde Vialard
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-26
Sensation Novels And Domestic Minds written by Mathilde Vialard and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.
Literature And Science In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Laura Otis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-23
Literature And Science In The Nineteenth Century written by Laura Otis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-23 with Literary Collections categories.
This anthology brings together a generous selection of scientific and literary material to explore the exchanges and interactions between them. It shows how scientists and creative writers alike fed from a common imagination in their language, style, metaphors and imagery. It includes writing by Michael Faraday, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many others.
An Essay On Hysteria
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Author : Thomas Laycock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1840
An Essay On Hysteria written by Thomas Laycock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1840 with Constipation categories.