Saint Hysteria : Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture /

Saint Hysteria examines scientific, literary, and religious texts that share a fascination with the otherness of the female body, whether in ecstatic pleasure or in neurotic pain. Cristina Mazzoni focuses on material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mainly in Italy and France....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mazzoni, Cristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Gender Studies.
Religious Studies.
RELIGION / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. Historicizing Hysteria, Hysterizing History: A Dialogue of Neurosis and Religion
  • CHAPTER 1. The Ecstasy of Saint Hysteria: Women's Mysticism in Medical Writings
  • CHAPTER 2. Mystical Languages of Illness: Naturalism in France and Italy
  • CHAPTER 3. Decadence and Saintliness: Hagiographies or Pathographies?
  • CHAPTER 4. Mystical Self-Interpretations: From the Age of Spirituality to the Age of Hysteria
  • CONCLUSION. From Hysterical Anguish to Mystical Ecstasy: Old Symptoms of a New Sainthood
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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