Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism
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Author: Ankhi Mukherjee ISBN: 9781135860523
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: February 1, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Ankhi Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781135860523
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: February 1, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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