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Aesthetic hysteria : the great neurosis in Victorian melodrama and contemporary fiction / Ankhi Mukherjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mukherjee, Ankhi.
- Series:
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Melodrama, English--History and criticism.
- Melodrama, English.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Hysteria in literature.
- Neuroses in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Psychoanalysis in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 121 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Summary:
- Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies. The study uses its theoretical and philosophical questioning of a cultural phenomenon to interrogate the politics and ends of theory, and is timely in addressing similar anxieties dominating contemporary critical and cultural theory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-117) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415981408
- 0415981409
- OCLC:
- 85692869
- Online:
- Publisher description
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