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HYSTERIA, HYPNOTISM, THE SPIRITS, AND PORNOGRAPHY
FIN-DE-SIECLE CULTURAL DISCOURSE IN THE DECADENT RASCHILDE |
| By: |
Michael R. Finn |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£51.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0874130670 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780874130676 |
| Publisher: |
ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITY PRESSES |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2009 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. |
| Synopsis: |
This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. It is a book about disempowerment, and re-empowerment through writing. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Delaware Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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