Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Themes in Motion Pictures, Comparative Literature, Women Authors - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, 20th Century American Literature - Pre WWII - Literary Criticism, Psychology & Literature, 19th
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Overview
"The originality of Ender's approach and her insightful readings of literary and psychoanalytic texts make this a significant contribution. She proceeds in a circular fashion, returning to look at the same works in different contexts. By the end, I was thoroughly won over, entranced."--Martha Noel Evans, author of Fits and Starts: A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern FranceIn 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.
Book Details
Published
November 16, 1995
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Pages
307
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780801480836