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Hardcover Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-De-Si_cle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde Book

ISBN: 161149124X

ISBN13: 9781611491241

Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-De-Si_cle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde

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...

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