Sexing the Mind : Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria / Evelyne Ender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ender, Evelyne, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Knowledge--Psychology.

James, Henry.

Sand, George, 1804-1876--Knowledge--Psychology.

Sand, George.

Fiction & Short Stories.

Local Subjects:

Fiction & Short Stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In a book both brilliant and lucid, Evelyne Ender explores the issue of sexual identity in the fiction, criticism, and psychoanalytic writings of the nineteenth century. She focuses on the figure of the hysteric, which, she says, came to represent a mind haunted by the questioning of gender.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Ender, Evelyne

Introduction

Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Hysteria: The Medical Context

Chapter 2. Henry James and George Sand: Scenes of Passion, Scenes of Hysteria

Chapter 3. The Bostonians: Representing the "Sentiment of Sex"

Chapter 4. Engendering the Mind: James, Freud, and George Sand

Chapter 5. Reading Sexual Difference: The Case of George Sand

Chapter 6. "Girls and Their Blind Visions": George Eliot, Hysteria, and History

"Always Secrets of the Alcove": A Postscript

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501734236

1501734237

OCLC:

1129196529