Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Author:   Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham College, Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   v. 144
ISBN:  

9780415981408


Pages:   140
Publication Date:   17 July 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction


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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.

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Author:   Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham College, Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 144
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780415981408


ISBN 10:   0415981409
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   17 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: ""Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier"": Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama Chapter Three: ""Missed Encounters"": Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"

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Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

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