Voices from the asylum [electronic resource] : four French women writers, 1850-1920 /
by Wilson, Susannah.
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BookSeries: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (248 p.).ISBN: 9780191595226 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Autobiography | Autobiography -- Women authors | Claudel, Camille, 1864-1943 | Rouy, Hersilie, 1814-1881 | Esquiron, Marie | Lair Lamotte, Pauline, 1853-1918 | Psychiatry in literature | Psychiatric hospital patients -- France -- History -- 19th century | Women -- Mental healthOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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