Ankhi Mukherjee

Aesthetic Hysteria (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, bringing together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135860523
• Artikelnr.: 38404128

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