Saint hysteria
neurosis, mysticism, and gender in European culture
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Publication
1996 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL976304M
- ISBN-100801432294
- OCLC Control Number34514723
- OCLC Control Numbersainthysterianeu00mazz
- Library of Congress Control Number96013417
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- Goodreads2756786
- LibraryThing1179758
Classifications
- DDC248.2/2/082
- LCCBV5083 .M325 1996
Description
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. Her approach uses the methodologies of cultural studies and feminism but also benefits from the insights of psychoanalytic criticism. She asks how the identification of mysticism with hysteria became prevalent, and explores the continuing dialogue between a historicizing view of hysteria and a view of hysteria as repressed religious mysticism.
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