Mukherjee Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-86053-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 140 Seiten

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

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

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.