1st Edition
Aesthetic Hysteria The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
By Ankhi Mukherjee
Copyright 2007
140 Pages
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Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.
