Goldstein Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy

The Case of Nanette Leroux
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3371-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix

Part One: HYSTERIA COMPLICATED BY ECSTASY
Sexuality, Time, and Commodities in the Malady of Nanette Leroux

Chapter 1: PRELIMINARIES 3
The Authors of the Case: An Inbuilt Polyphony 6
The Plot Summary 11
Chapter 2: CONTEXTS 18
Contexts: What They Do for the Reader, and
How Many Are Enough 18
Savoy: Old Regime, Revolution, and Piedmontese
Restoration 20
The Spa: A Characteristically Nineteenth-Century Setting 35
Commodities and Consumer Culture 42
Diagnostics: Catalepsy and Hysteria circa 1820 46
Medicine and Science as Public Spectacle 56
The Local Scientifi c Public Sphere 64
Scientifi c Networks, or How Despine Found Bertrand 65
Religion in Savoy and in the Leroux Case 69
Defi ant Women: Despine's Chagrins Domestiques 73

Chapter 3: MAKING SENSE OF THE CASE 83
The Authors’ Understanding of the Case 83
A Twenty-First-Century Interpretation of the Case 94
Chapter 4: TEXTUAL MATTERS 128
Nanette Leroux or "Nanette Leroux": The Issue of Pseudonyms 128
Palimpsest and Polyphony: The State of the Manuscript 129
Choosing a Text for Translation 133

Part Two: THE TEXT OF THE CASE HISTORY OBSERVATIONS OF NANETTE LEROUX
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy 137
Appendix On the Compatibility of Foucauldian and Freudian Approaches 201
Notes 205
Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Goldstein is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 and Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century.