Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father: Hysteria in the 19th Century Novel by Helen Hayward
Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father: Hysteria in the 19th Century Novel

Helen Hayward

Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father: Hysteria in the 19th Century Novel

Helen Hayward

160 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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Freud's "discovery" of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud called femininity was brought to life by these realist novelists. The hysterical cha...

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