Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-century France - Softcover

Beizer, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801481422 ISBN 13: 9780801481420

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

An examination of hysteria in 19th century French literary and cultural contexts. Contents: Introduction; Part One: Medical Stories chapters on: The Textual Woman and the Hysterical Novel: To Open the Question; The Doctor's Tale: Nineteenth-Century Medical Narratives of Hysteria; Reading Women: The Novel in the Text of Hysteria. Part Two: Epistolary Narratives. The Physiology of Style: Sex, Text and the Gender of Writing; Flaubert's Letters to Louise Colet; Rewriting a Woman's Life: Fluidity, Madness, and Voice in Louise Colet's La Servante; Writing with a Vengeance: Writing Madame Bovary, Unwriting Louise Colet. Part Three: Literary Histories. The Leak in Clotilde's Head: Hysteria as Source of Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle; Hystericized History: The Commune according to Du Camp; Les Convulsions de Paris; Venus in Drag, or Redressing the Discourse of Hysteria; Rachilde's Monsieur Venus. Postscript

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801481422
• ISBN 13: 9780801481420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295