Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
List Price: $110.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-98140-8
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 07/17/2007
About the Book
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.
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