02813nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001700169072002300186072001600209100008000225245012700305250001800432264007900450300003300529336002600562337002600588338003600614347002400650490006900674505035300743520074701096650003801843650002801881650002901909650003301938650003501971650003002006650002402036710003402060773002602094776003602120776003602156776003602192830006902228856004602297978-3-031-39896-4DE-He21320251030110819.0cr nn 008mamaa230929s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830313989647 a10.1007/978-3-031-39896-42doi 4aPN760.5-769 7aDSBF2bicssc 7aLIT0240402bisacsh 7aDSBF2thema1 aRampelli, Melissa.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aNarratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novelh[electronic resource] /cby Melissa Rampelli.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 214 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-64430 aIntroduction -- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility -- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House -- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure -- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders -- Epilogue.  aNarratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress. 0aLiterature, Modernx19th century. 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy. 0aFeminism and literature. 0aMedicine and the humanities.14aNineteenth-Century Literature.24aFeminist Literary Theory.24aMedical Humanities.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303139895708iPrinted edition:z978303139897108iPrinted edition:z9783031398988 0aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,x2634-644340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39896-4