Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-98140-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Ankhi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria, Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama, Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy, Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.