Saint Hysteria: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

by Christina Mazzoni and Cristina Mazzoni

Saint Hysteria examines scientific, literary, and religious texts that share a fascination with the otherness of the female body, whether in ecstatic pleasure or in neurotic pain. Cristina Mazzoni focuses on material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mainly in Italy and France. Her approach uses the methodologies of cultural studies and feminism but also benefits from the insights of psychoanalytic criticism. She asks how the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801432294
• ISBN13: 9780801432293
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"