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Sexing the Mind

Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria
By:Evelyne Ender
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Print ISBN:9780801480836
eText ISBN:9781501734236
Edition:0
Copyright:1995
Format:Page Fidelity

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In a book both brilliant and lucid, Evelyne Ender explores the issue of sexual identity in the fiction, criticism, and psychoanalytic writings of the nineteenth century. She focuses on the figure of the hysteric, which, she says, came to represent a mind haunted by the questioning of gender.