Sexing the Mind : Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria /
Ender, Evelyne
Sexing the Mind : Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria / Evelyne Ender. - 1 online resource (320 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501734236
10.7591/9781501734236 doi
Comparative literature--American and French.
Comparative literature--French and American.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Hysteria in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychological fiction--History and criticism.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Women in literature.
Fiction & Short Stories.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century .
PS2127.P8
809.034
Sexing the Mind : Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria / Evelyne Ender. - 1 online resource (320 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501734236
10.7591/9781501734236 doi
Comparative literature--American and French.
Comparative literature--French and American.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Hysteria in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychological fiction--History and criticism.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Women in literature.
Fiction & Short Stories.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century .
PS2127.P8
809.034