The discourse of hysteria
Subtitle: the topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric
By: Logan Dale Greene ; with a foreword by Teena A. M. Carnegie.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780773448438
Subjects: Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Rhetoric -- History; Rhetorical criticism; Feminist literary criticism; Rhetoric and psychology; Hysteria in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prolegomenon to a theory of women's rhetoric; title: A new history of rhetoric; title: The redemptive function of the hysteric; title: The power of humility: Hildegard of Bingen; title: The power of hysteria: Margery Kempe; title: The sexualization of hysteria: Aphra Behn; title: A new sign: Sojourner Truth; title: Ecriture feminine: Helene Cixous; title: A theory of women's rhetoric.