Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Author:   Melissa Rampelli
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
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9783031398957


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   02 October 2023
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Melissa Rampelli
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9783031398957


ISBN 10:   3031398955
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   02 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction.- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House.- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure.- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders.- Epilogue.

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Melissa Rampelli is Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA.

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