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catalog abstract "Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria - from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys encyclopedically the range of past and present readings of hysteria. Intellectual historians, historians of science and medicine, scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature, as well as psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and neurologists have all converged in the last decade on "the new hysteria studies." What does this burgeoning corpus of writing tell us? Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn from the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.".
catalog contributor b6493071.
catalog created "c1995.".
catalog date "1995".
catalog date "c1995.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
catalog description "Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria - from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys encyclopedically the range of past and present readings of hysteria. Intellectual historians, historians of science and medicine, scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature, as well as psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and neurologists have all converged in the last decade on "the new hysteria studies."".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog description "Introduction: The New Hysteria Studies -- A Short "History" of Hysteria -- Ch. 1. The Major Interpretive Traditions. Intellectual Histories of Hysteria. Psychoanalytic Hysteria. Feminist Histories of Hysteria. Charcot and the History of Hysteria. Nonfeminist Social and Political Histories -- Ch. 2. Theorizing Disease Historiography. The Need for Definitional Clarity. Beyond the "Historical Hysterics" From Theory to Practice. Beyond the Freudian Historical Teleology. Toward Sociosomatic Synthesis. The "Doctor-Patient Relationship" The De-dramatization of Hysteria. The Question of Social Class. Hysteria -- The Male Malady. On the Rise and Fall of Nervous Diseases -- Ch. 3. Cultures of Hysteria: Past and Present Traditions. Hysteria's Metaphorical Past. The Literary, Dramatic, and Visual Arts. Politics, History, Society -- Ch. 4. Cultures of Hysteria: Future Orientations. Conceptualizing Cultural Influence. Hysteria, Gender, Culture. Hysteria and Religion Reconsidered.".
catalog description "What does this burgeoning corpus of writing tell us? Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn from the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.".
catalog extent "xii, 327 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0691037175 (CL : alk. paper) :".
catalog issued "1995".
catalog issued "c1995.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
catalog subject "616.85/24/009 20".
catalog subject "Historiography.".
catalog subject "Hysteria Historiography.".
catalog subject "Hysteria History.".
catalog subject "Hysteria history.".
catalog subject "RC532 .M53 1995".
catalog subject "WM 11.1 M619a 1995".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The New Hysteria Studies -- A Short "History" of Hysteria -- Ch. 1. The Major Interpretive Traditions. Intellectual Histories of Hysteria. Psychoanalytic Hysteria. Feminist Histories of Hysteria. Charcot and the History of Hysteria. Nonfeminist Social and Political Histories -- Ch. 2. Theorizing Disease Historiography. The Need for Definitional Clarity. Beyond the "Historical Hysterics" From Theory to Practice. Beyond the Freudian Historical Teleology. Toward Sociosomatic Synthesis. The "Doctor-Patient Relationship" The De-dramatization of Hysteria. The Question of Social Class. Hysteria -- The Male Malady. On the Rise and Fall of Nervous Diseases -- Ch. 3. Cultures of Hysteria: Past and Present Traditions. Hysteria's Metaphorical Past. The Literary, Dramatic, and Visual Arts. Politics, History, Society -- Ch. 4. Cultures of Hysteria: Future Orientations. Conceptualizing Cultural Influence. Hysteria, Gender, Culture. Hysteria and Religion Reconsidered.".
catalog title "Approaching hysteria : disease and its interpretations / Mark S. Micale.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "text".