Author: Beizer, Janet
Title: Ventriloquized Bodies : Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,295 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. A label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Medical Stories: The Textual Woman & the Hysterical Novel: To Open the Question; The Doctor's Tale: 19th-Century Medical Narratives of Hysteria; Reading Women: The Novel in the Text of Hysteria; Epistolary Narratives: The Physiology of Style: Sex, Text & the Gender of Writing; Flaubert's Letters to Louise Colet; Rewriting a Woman's Life: Fluidity, Madness & Voice in Louise Colet's 'La Servante'; Writing with a Vengeance: Writing 'Madame Bovary', Unwriting Louise Colet; Literary Histories: The Leak in Clotilde's Head: Hysteria as Source of Zola's 'Rougon-Macquart' Cycle; Hystericizing History: The Commune According to Du Camp: 'Les Convulsions de Paris'; Venus in Drag, or Redressing the Discourse of Hysteria: Rachilde's 'Monsieur Vénus'; Postscript: Speculations on Dracula,Frankenstein, & Rachilde's Monster.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, French Literature, France, Nineteenth-Century, Hysteria, Feminism Feminist, Women, Narration, Sex Role Gender