TY - BOOK AU - Rampelli,Melissa ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel T2 - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, SN - 9783031398964 AV - PN760.5-769 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature, Modern KW - 19th century KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Feminism and literature KW - Medicine and the humanities KW - Nineteenth-Century Literature KW - Feminist Literary Theory KW - Medical Humanities N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39896-4 ER -