Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria

by Anna Furse

Book Overview

Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist theorists, cultural studies specialists, literary scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical and art historians, as well as novelists. The hysteric is construed as a powerless, voiceless subject, marginalised by the forces of the patriarchy that have been the root cause of their distress, dissembling, and disablement.　

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138389366
• ISBN13: 9781138389366
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.7"