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Mysterious women: Memory, madness, and trauma in the nineteenth-century sensation narrative.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mysterious women: Memory, madness, and trauma in the nineteenth-century sensation narrative./
Author:	Brundan, Katherine.
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2565.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3224076
ISBN:	9780542766534

Mysterious women: Memory, madness, and trauma in the nineteenth-century sensation narrative.
Brundan, Katherine.

Mysterious women: Memory, madness, and trauma in the nineteenth-century sensation narrative. - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2565.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.

This dissertation examines memory, madness, and trauma through the figure of the mysterious and sensational woman in nineteenth-century literature. It focuses primarily on fictional and non-fictional texts from the 1860's produced in Britain and France. This period has been chosen as it exemplifies the "age of sensation" and produced a wealth of sensational texts across a range of genres, frequently centered on the mysterious madwoman. Primary authors I examine for their use of sensationalism include Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Ellen Wood. I investigate how these novelists intersect with nineteenth-century psychological developments in the fields of memory, insanity, and nervous shock (trauma). A significant part of this dissertation involves reading British fiction within a wider European context that includes British and French non-fictional texts such as Madame de Douhault's court case, Hersilie Rouy's memoirs from the lunatic asylum, newspapers, literary periodicals, and medical texts. Many of these non-fictional works had a direct bearing on the development of sensational fiction, and became part of a considerable literary dialogue between France and Britain. In tracing sensational fiction's involvement in notions of latent and traumatic memory, I pay particular attention to the nineteenth-century critical discourse that helped define sensationalism. The main theoretical thrust of this dissertation comes from recent trauma theory, although feminist and Foucauldian approaches are also considered. In summary, I trace a trajectory that links the rise of sensationalism in the 1860's with the emergence of psychological interest in nervous shock and latent memory, suggesting that sensational narratives imply a concept of traumatic memory as yet unarticulated in nineteenth-century medical discourse.

ISBN: 9780542766534Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Mysterious women: Memory, madness, and trauma in the nineteenth-century sensation narrative.
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