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Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography - Fin-de-Si_cle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde (Hardcover)
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Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography - Fin-de-Si_cle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde (Hardcover)
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This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent
writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a
case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories
about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism
had on the female creative psyche. Rachilde was especially
vulnerable as she suffered hysterical attacks, witnessed a
hypnotism craze in France, and was the only child in a family of
table-tapping spiritualists. After a biographical first section,
chapters examine how hysteria, hypnotism, and spiritualism
penetrated the sociocultural fabric of France in the period between
1870-1900, and how Rachilde's novels represented, unconsciously
absorbed, or at other times mocked those discourses. Because she
was prosecuted for the 'obscenity' of her first major success,
Monsieur Venus, this study also situates her writing comparatively
within the production of other late-century pornographers. A final
chapter analyzes how Rachilde's work confronts the disabling
doctrines of her time and how, out of them, she constructs a unique
and productive writing stance.
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