Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism
| Author: | Ankhi Mukherjee | ISBN: | 9781135860523 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | February 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ankhi Mukherjee |
| ISBN: | 9781135860523 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | February 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
