03217nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-39896-4 DE-He213 20251030110819.0 cr nn 008mamaa 230929s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031398964 978-3-031-39896-4 10.1007/978-3-031-39896-4 doi PN760.5-769 DSBF bicssc LIT024040 bisacsh DSBF thema Rampelli, Melissa. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 66320 Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel [electronic resource] / by Melissa Rampelli. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 214 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 Introduction -- 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. Narratives 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. Literature, Modern 19th century. 66321 Literature Philosophy. 66322 Feminism and literature. 66323 Medicine and the humanities. 66324 Nineteenth-Century Literature. 66325 Feminist Literary Theory. 66326 Medical Humanities. 66327 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031398957 Printed edition: 9783031398971 Printed edition: 9783031398988 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39896-4 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 56348 56348