Susannah Wilson

Voices from the Asylum

Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199579358
• ISBN-10: 0199579350
• Artikelnr.: 29926612

Autorenporträt

Susannah Wilson is a scholar of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture and literature, with a specialist interest in women's writing; psychoanalytical theory; the history of psychiatry in France; social history; and 'self-writing' (autobiography, memoir, correspondence). She studied for a BA (Hons) in French Studies and a Masters degree at the University of Manchester, and completed her D.Phil. in French at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of abbreviations
* Note on presentation
* Introduction
* 1: Women's writing and women's incarceration: historical and
theoretical approaches
* 2: Mémoires d'une aliénée by Hersilie Rouy: 'Où est la folie
là-dedans?'
* 3: Marie Esquiron: 'Ma triste et injuste séquestration'
* 4: Pauline Lair Lamotte: 'Je sens que la vérité est là'
* 5: Camille Claudel: 'Du rêve que fut ma vie, ceci est le cauchemar'
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index