Asti Hustvedt

Medical Muses

Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpà ªtrià  re Hospital in Paris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 129mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781408822357
• ISBN-10: 1408822350
• Artikelnr.: 35239547

Autorenporträt

Asti Hustvedt is an independent scholar who has written extensively on hysteria and literature. She has a Ph.D in French literature from New York University, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Phi Betta Kapa Fellowship. She is the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France and has published many translations. She lives in New York City.