| Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction Contributor(s): Mukherjee, Ankhi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415512980 ISBN-13: 9780415512985 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 792.27 |
| Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.44 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 critical and cultural theory. |