num_pages: 295
description: 1ST EDITION, Hardcover, issued w/o dust jacket, published by Cornell University Press. An examination of hysteria in 19th century French literary and cultural contexts. Introduction; Part Medical Stories chapters The Textual Woman and the Hysterical To Open the Question; The Doctor's Nineteenth-Century Medical Narratives of Hysteria; Reading The Novel in the Text of Hysteria. Part Epistolary Narratives. The Physiology of Sex, Text and the Gender of Writing; Flaubert's Letters to Louise Colet; Rewriting a Woman's Fluidity, Madness, and Voice in Louise Colet's La Servante; Writing with a Writing Madame Bovary, Unwriting Louise Colet. Part Literary Histories. The Leak in Clotilde's Hysteria as Source of Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle; Hystericized The Commune according to Du Camp; Les Convulsions de Paris; Venus in Drag, or Redressing the Discourse of Hysteria; Rachilde's Monsieur Venus. Postscript
language: English
title: Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
titlecomplete: Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
ratings_count: 21
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
publisher: Cornell University Press