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Sexing the Mind : Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria / Evelyne Ender.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501734236
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.034 20
LOC classification:
  • PS2127.P8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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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.

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