Bernadette Höfer

Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic interconnection of body and mind. The author analyzes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers fully anticipated current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317073864
• Artikelnr.: 49351272

Autorenporträt

Bernadette Höfer is an Assistant Professor of French at The Ohio State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction
1 The Relational Conception of Mind and Body in the Seventeenth Century
2 Possession
Exorcism
and Madness: The Context of Jean-Joseph Surin's Illness
3 Melancholic Subversions in Molière's Le misanthrope (1666) and Le malade imaginaire (1673)
4 Psychosomatic Fiction in Madame de Lafayette: The Enigma of Illness
5 The Theater of Melancholy: Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677)
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index