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Voices from the asylum : four French women writers, 1850-1920 /

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Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psyc...

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Main Author: Wilson, Susannah, 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:
Claudel, Camille, > 1864-1943.
Rouy, Hersilie, > 1814-1881.
Esquiron, Marie.
Lair Lamotte, Pauline, > 1853-1918.
Claudel, Camille, > 1864-1943
Lair Lamotte, Pauline, > 1853-1918
Rouy, Hersilie, > 1814-1881
Le Bouc, Madeleine.
Claudel, Camille.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Psychiatric hospital patients > France > History > 19th century.
Women > Mental health.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Santé mentale.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Autobiography > Women authors
Psychiatric hospital patients
Women > Mental health
France
Psychisch kranke Frau
Patientin
Frankreich
Psychiatrische Klinik
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Women's writing and women's incarceration : historical and theoretical approaches
  • Mémoires d'une aliénée by Hersilie Rouy : 'Où est la folie là-dedans?
  • Marie Esquiron : Ma triste et injuste séquestration
  • Pauline Lair Lamotte : Je sense que la vérité est là
  • Camille Claudel : Du rêve que fut ma vie, ceci est le cauchemar.