{"product_id":"medicine-and-womens-fiction-hysteria-bodies-and-narratives-1850s-to-1930s-9781399523080","title":"Medicine and Women's Fiction: Hysteria, Bodies and Narratives, 1850s to 1930s","description":"This book looks afresh at the history of hysteria to nuance and complicate existing understandings of the relationship between medicine and women's writing. Through in-depth analyses of both medical texts and women's fiction published between the 1850s and 1930s, it documents the prevalence of scientific ideas in popular culture and how hysterical symptomatology has been appropriated, reworked and satirised in literature. Examining novels and short stories by Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Sarah Grand, Lucas Malet and Djuna Barnes, \u003ci\u003eMedicine and Women's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e traces women writers' fascination with the materiality and instability of the body, troubling inherited truths about mental health and gender in literary and medical discourse. In contrast to stereotypical images of hysteria, it draws particular attention to disorder as part of everyday experience: the familiar, mundane ways in which the body goes out of control, from involuntary movements to ghostly hallucinations and unruly organs. Altogether, Louise Benson James re-evaluates what it means to take hysteria seriously in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Benson James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399523080","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46814550786185,"sku":"9781399523080","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b49f62e9-6dff-4e9d-924c-19147cab1f7b.jpg?v=1779826546","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/medicine-and-womens-fiction-hysteria-bodies-and-narratives-1850s-to-1930s-9781399523080","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}