| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Ender, Evelyne -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Hysteria: The Medical Context -- Chapter 2. Henry James and George Sand: Scenes of Passion, Scenes of Hysteria -- Chapter 3. The Bostonians: Representing the "Sentiment of Sex" -- Chapter 4. Engendering the Mind: James, Freud, and George Sand -- Chapter 5. Reading Sexual Difference: The Case of George Sand -- Chapter 6. "Girls and Their Blind Visions": George Eliot, Hysteria, and History -- "Always Secrets of the Alcove": A Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In a book both brilliant and lucid, Evelyne Ender explores the issue of sexual identity in the fiction, criticism, and psychoanalytic writings of the nineteenth century. She focuses on the figure of the hysteric, which, she says, came to represent a mind haunted by the questioning of gender |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) |
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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Sand, George, 1804-1876 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast |
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Sand, George, 1804-1876 fast |
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Psychological fiction -- History and criticism
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Hysteria in literature.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Comparative literature -- American and French
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Comparative literature -- French and American
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 19th Century .
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Comparative literature -- American and French
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Comparative literature -- French and American
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Fiction
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Hysteria in literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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Psychological fiction
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Psychology
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Sex (Psychology) in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501734236 |
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1501734237 |
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