Author: Kahane, Claire
Title: Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995. orig. wrappers. 21x13cm, xviii,196 pp. PAPERBACK.. ISBN: 0801851629. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents: History/hysteria: a glance backward -- Freud’s passion/Dora’s voice -- Invalids and nurses: the sisterhood of rage -- Medusa’s voice: male hysteria in The Bostonians -- From dream to night-mère: the poetics of hysteria and masochism in The Story of an African farm -- The Great refusal: The Voyage out -- Male modernists and the ear of the other in Heart of darkness and The Good soldier.

Keywords: 0801851629 Literary Criticism, English Literature, Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Fiction, Speech, Voice, Hysteria, Narration, Psychoanalytic