Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Asti Hustvedt$45.04
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But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteria--with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumas--may be an illness of the past, but the notions of femininity that lie behind it offer insights into disorders of the present.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/23/2011
ISBN: 9780393025606
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/28/2011
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2011
New York Times Book Review 06/19/2011 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 06/26/2011 pg. 34
Choice 01/01/2012
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 238