Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette LeRoux

by Jan Goldstein

Book Overview

A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152373
• ISBN13: 9780691152370
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"