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By Sabine Arnaud
In On Hysteria, Sabine Arnaud strains the production and upward push of anxiety, from its invention within the eighteenth century via nineteenth-century healing perform. Hysteria took form, she exhibits, as a predominantly aristocratic illness, basically starting to go category barriers (and be restricted to ladies) throughout the French Revolution. not like such a lot reviews of the function and standing of medication and its different types during this interval, On Hysteria focuses no longer on associations yet on narrative options and writing—the ways in which texts in quite a lot of genres helped to construct wisdom via misinterpretation and recontextualized citation.
Powerfully interdisciplinary, and delivering entry to infrequent old fabric for the 1st time in English, On Hysteria will communicate to students in quite a lot of fields, together with the background of technological know-how, French reviews, and comparative literature.
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