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"For decades, scholars of Victorian history, literature, and culture have referred to nineteenth-century psychiatric thinking about such topics as mesmerism, hysteria, moral management, race, and sexuality, but the major texts in these debates have been scattered and unavailable outside major libraries. Now Embodied Selves brings the most important essays of Victorian psychiatry, from George Combe to Havelock Ellis, together in one volume. Brilliantly chosen and organized, these essays will transform our understanding of Victorian narrative and its discontents."--Elaine Showalter, Princeton University
"This anthology will transform the study of nineteenth-century psychology. It draws together fascinating materials hitherto impossible for most people to reach. The head-notes and introductions provide contexts that render the collection invaluable for students as well as academics in the fields of literature, history of science, gender studies, and psychiatry."--Gillian Beer, Cambridge University
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This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought and its relations to the wider cultural framework of the era. Drawing together an unprecedented range of materials from scientific, medical, and cultural sources, it charts changing notions of selfhood and bodily identity in the emerging sciences (and pseudo-sciences) of psychology and psychiatry. Areas covered include: physiognomy, phrenology, and mesmerism; theories of dreams, memory, and the unconscious; female and masculine sexuality; insanity and nervous disorders; and theories of degeneration. The book illuminates both the diversity and vitality of psychology in the pre-Freudian era and will help correct many of our misconceptions about theories of sexuality and the unconscious at this time. Embodies Selves will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in the areas of cultural, literary, historical, and gender studies.
"For decades, scholars of Victorian history, literature, and culture have referred to nineteenth-century psychiatric thinking about such topics as mesmerism, hysteria, moral management, race, and sexuality, but the major texts in these debates have been scattered and unavailable outside major libraries. Now Embodied Selves brings the most important essays of Victorian psychiatry, from George Combe to Havelock Ellis, together in one volume. Brilliantly chosen and organized, these essays will transform our understanding of Victorian narrative and its discontents."--Elaine Showalter, Princeton University
"This anthology will transform the study of nineteenth-century psychology. It draws together fascinating materials hitherto impossible for most people to reach. The head-notes and introductions provide contexts that render the collection invaluable for students as well as academics in the fields of literature, history of science, gender studies, and psychiatry."--Gillian Beer, Cambridge University
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This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought and its relations to the wider cultural framework of the era. Drawing together an unprecedented range of materials from scientific, medical, and cultural sources, it charts changing notions of selfhood and bodily identity in the emerging sciences (and pseudo-sciences) of psychology and psychiatry. Areas covered include: physiognomy, phrenology, and mesmerism; theories of dreams, memory, and the unconscious; female and masculine sexuality; insanity and nervous disorders; and theories of degeneration. The book illuminates both the diversity and vitality of psychology in the pre-Freudian era and will help correct many of our misconceptions about theories of sexuality and the unconscious at this time. Embodies Selves will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in the areas of cultural, literary, historical, and gender studies.
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