Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate sk literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.

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Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate sk literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.

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Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Melissa Rampelli
Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Narratives of Women's Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Melissa Rampelli

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Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate sk literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783031398957
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date: 09/30/2023
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Edition description: 2024
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Melissa Rampelli is Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House.- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure.- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders.- Epilogue.

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