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Hysteria complicated by ecstasy : the case of Nanette Leroux /
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Part One HYSTERIA COMPLICATED BY ECSTASY Sexuality, Time, and Commodities in the Malady of Nanette Leroux; Chapter 1 PRELIMINARIES; The Authors of the Case: An Inbuilt Polyphony; The Plot Summary; Chapter 2 CONTEXTS; Contexts: What They Do for the Reader, and How Many Are Enough; Savoy: Old Regime, Revolution, and Piedmontese Restoration; The Spa: A Characteristically Nineteenth-Century Setting; Commodities and Consumer Culture; Diagnostics: Catalepsy and Hysteria circa 1820; Medicine and Science as Public Spectacle.
- The Local Scientific Public SphereScientific Networks, or How Despine Found Bertrand; Religion in Savoy and in the Leroux Case; Defiant Women: Despine's Chagrins Domestiques; Chapter 3 MAKING SENSE OF THE CASE; The Authors' Understanding of the Case; A Twenty-First-Century Interpretation of the Case; Chapter 4 TEXTUAL MATTERS; Nanette Leroux or "Nanette Leroux": The Issue of Pseudonyms; Palimpsest and Polyphony: The State of the Manuscript; Choosing a Text for Translation; Part Two THE TEXT OF THE CASE HISTORY; OBSERVATIONS OF NANETTE LEROUX Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy.
- Appendix On the Compatibility of Foucauldian and Freudian ApproachesNotes; Index.