Voices from the Asylum
Subtitle: Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920
Publisher: Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199579358
Subjects: Autobiography, women authors; Psychiatric hospitals; Hospital patients; Women, mental health; Women, france
Description: Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.