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Ventriloquized bodies : narratives of hysteria in nineteenth-century France

Print Book, English, 1994
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801429149, 9780801481420, 0801429145, 0801481422
29358069
1. The Textual Woman and the Hysterical Novel: To Open the Question
2. The Doctors' Tale: Nineteenth-Century Medical Narratives of Hysteria
3. Reading Women: The Novel in the Text of Hysteria
4. The Physiology of Style: Sex, Text, and the Gender of Writing: Flaubert's Letters to Louise Colet
5. Rewriting a Woman's Life: Fluidity, Madness, and Voice in Louise Colet's La Servante
6. Writing with a Vengeance: Writing Madame Bovary, Unwriting Louise Colet
7. The Leak in Clotilde's Head: Hysteria as Source of Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle
8. Hystericizing History: The Commune according to Du Camp: Les Convulsions de Paris
9. Venus in Drag, or Redressing the Discourse of Hysteria: Rachilde's Monsieur Venus