Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy : : The Case of Nanette Leroux / / Jan Goldstein.

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2009
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 14 halftones. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Part One. HYSTERIA COMPLICATED BY ECSTASY
  • Chapter 1. PRELIMINARIES
  • Chapter 2. CONTEXTS
  • Chapter 3. MAKING SENSE OF THE CASE
  • Chapter 4. TEXTUAL MATTERS
  • Part Two. THE TEXT OF THE CASE HISTORY
  • Observations of Nanette Leroux: Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
  • Appendix. On the Compatibility of Foucauldian and Freudian Approaches
  • Notes
  • Index