Ankhi Mukherjee

Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780415512985
• ISBN-10: 0415512980
• Artikelnr.: 42194230

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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