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9780415981408

Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415981408

  • ISBN10:

    0415981409

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier;: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria
Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama
'Missed Encounters': Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens'sGreat Expectations
Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker'sRegeneration
Trilogy
Emetic Theory
Conclusion
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