Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria - Brossura

Ender, Evelyne

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ISBN 10: 0801480833 ISBN 13: 9780801480836

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Sexing the Mind looks at scenes of hysteria in works by George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, and Henry James, as well as in the writings of Sigmund Freud, showing how these texts represent distinctive attempts to break loose from erotic, political, and epistemological models of Victorian masculinity and femininity. Through her approach, which is both closely textual (reading against the grain in psychoanalytic and feminist fashion) and historical (retracing in medical and literary texts the manifestations of hysteria), Ender uncovers a series of discursive structures that "engender" the modern subject. Her book probes the interplay of writing, subjectivity, and sexual identity, and succeeds in showing how the nineteenth-century view of hysteria, from Sand to the early Freud, displays the competing claims of male/female consciousness.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Evelyne Ender is Maitre-assistante in English and Comparative Literature at the Universite de Geneve.

Product Description:

Book by Ender Evelyne

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0801480833
• ISBN 13: 9780801480836
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 307