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Hysteria in performance / Jenn Cole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cole, Jenn, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
- Charcot, J. M.
- Salpêtrière (Hospital)--History--19th century.
- Salpêtrière (Hospital).
- Hysteria--France--History--19th century.
- Hysteria.
- Theater--Psychological aspects.
- Theater.
- Theater--Philosophy.
- Paris.
- France.
- Medical Subjects:
- Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
- Salpêtrière (Hospital).
- Paris.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. This groundbreaking study explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique mixture of theatre and science that has unexpected things to teach.
- Contents:
- Cover
- HYSTERIA in Performance
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE | Looking without Seeing
- TWO | The Hysteric as Scapegoat
- THREE | Hysterical Discourse
- FOUR | Hysteria in/as Performance
- FIVE | Hysterical Strategies in Contemporary Performance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-2280-0720-8
- OCLC:
- 1238101876
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