书目名称 | Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel |
编辑 | Melissa Rampelli |
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概述 | Considers the stock narrative women figures in literature to offer new definitions of women’s health.Examines the gender politics latent in nineteenth-century narrative.Analyzes the medical and sociol |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | hysteria; Literature, Science and Medicine Studies; health humanities; gender politics; women‘s health; n |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39896-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-39898-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-39896-4Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |