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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Introduction: "Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier": Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria; Chapter Two. Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama; Chapter Three. "Missed Encounters": Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations; Chapter Four. Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy; Chapter Five. Emetic Theory: Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 critica |
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NotesBibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Melodrama, English -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Hysteria in literature.
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Neuroses in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Psychoanalysis in literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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English drama
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English fiction
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Hysteria in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Melodrama, English
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Neuroses in literature
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Psychoanalysis in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135860530 |
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113586053X |
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