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Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts./
Author:	Findlay, Heather Ann.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International54-12A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9318870

Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts.
Findlay, Heather Ann.

Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 273 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1993.

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Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts explores the emergence of hysteria as a powerful figure for feminine sexuality and language in English Renaissance drama, lyric, prose and psychoanalytic theory. The thesis claims that even as hysteria emerges in English medical discourse as a distinctly feminine pathology, Renaissance dramatists, poets and satirists are drawn to the female hysteric as a privileged figure for subjectivity in general. Two initial chapters on Dr Edward Jorden's A briefe discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother and Reginald Scot's The discoverie of witchcraft discuss the role of hysteria and female melancholy in early modern debates about witchcraft and demonic possession and posit that Jorden and Scot find themselves implicated in the subversive linguistic activity of the witches they satirize and pathologize. A chapter on Shakespeare's Macbeth introduces the problem of male hysteria, and proposes that mad Lady Macbeth is an emblem--and a scapegoat--for the epidemic nature of hysteria in the tragedy. In a discussion of Katherine Philips's Poems, the thesis examines the use made by a woman writer of the trope of female hysteria and argues that Philips's persona as the "blushing poetess" is constructed in response to Renaissance proscriptions against women's writing and "romantic friendship." The dissertation concludes with a chapter on "Intervention on Transference," Jacques Lacan's reading of Freud's Dora case, and addresses such questions as the importance of hysteria to the psychoanalytic theory of the subject, the meaning of homosexual desire in psychoanalysis's encounter with female hysteria, and the possibilities for feminist criticism and politics entailed by a "return to hysteria." The dissertation claims that psychoanalysis's most radical intervention in the theory and treatment of hysteria is precisely the "hystericization" of the subject that I have been tracing in early modern texts.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British and Irish literature.

Madwomen, witches and lady writers: Hysteria in English Renaissance texts.
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