Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis In Victorian Melodrama And Contemporary Fiction

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. This text brings together academic foci - history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies.

• | By (Author): Ankhi (Wadham College, Oxford, Uk) Mukherjee
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 140 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0415981409
• | ISBN-13: 9780415981408