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Medicine and women's fiction : hysteria, bodies and narratives, 1850s to 1930s /

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"Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature. This book looks afresh at the history of hysteria to nuance and complicate existing understandings of the relationship between medicine and women's writing. Through in-depth analyses of both medic...

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Main Author:	Benson James, Louise (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
Series:	Gender and the body in literature and culture.
Subjects:	English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Hysteria in literature. Literature and medicine. Women in literature. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Hystérie dans la littérature. Littérature et médecine. Femmes dans la littérature. English fiction > History and criticism. Hysteria in literature Literature and medicine Women in literature 1800-1899 1850-1939 1900-1999

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