I had no idea who the characters in the films would be or how their personal relationships would evolve. So I can well imagine a screenplay in which Mortimer marries Emily while Edmund pairs up with Charlotte. Charlotte may be playing to the crowd in the climatic courtroom scene, but we must be able to connect the opening in which Mortimer is unable to save the patient with a gangrenous leg with his fears for Charlotte who will very likely die if forced to undergo a hysterectomy in an insane asylum.
Robert Dalrymple has become comfortable in his medical practice, so maybe he genuinely believes this treatment will benefit his troublesome daughter, but we know that Mortimer knows otherwise. The best tragedies often contain comic elements, and the best comedies almost always have genuinely tragic elements as Hysteria certainly does. Reading the reviews of many of my colleagues especially many of my male colleagues , I fear that Hysteria is another case of the dread phenomenon: When Bad Marketing Happens to Good Movies.
When I saw Hysteria , without any marketing hype, I saw one of the best films of Did you? All rights reserved. Please contact WomenArts to obtain written permission if you wish to publish information from our website. Newsletter Signup.
Home Main Navigation. Our three-day international film festival that celebrates the talent of filmmakers 22 years old and younger. Free weekly film series celebrating the richness and diversity of international independent filmmaking. Her analysis complements the recent pioneering works by Anne Vila, Elizabeth A. Williams, and Jan Goldstein, among others, while all along offering the most extensive treatment of the early hysteria phenomena since the classic work by Ilza Veith.
Her study is essential reading for anyone interested in this quintessential but enigmatic malady—one that so defines long-standing perceptions of gender, bourgeois culture, and modernity itself. Against the now-familiar background of late nineteenth-century and early Freudian hysteria as a mode of covert feminine protest, she presents for the era of the Enlightenment an unstable discursive field where medical writing overlaps with other literary genres and the hysteric is as often a man as a woman and is usually an aristocrat.
An original and fascinating piece of scholarship. In keeping with the varied and widespread writing on hysteria during this period, Arnaud explores a wide range of issues, including sexual difference, mental illness, and sexuality. In using a rhetorical methodology to study the history of hysteria, the author adds a new and necessary dimension to the existing literature, which has focused largely on medical institutions, disciplines, and devices associated with hysteria.
Highly recommended. On Hysteria considers a wide range of issues that are both specific to the particular history of hysteria, and more broadly applicable to the history medicine. Arnaud pays special attention to the role played by language in the definition of any medical category, basing her analysis on a masterful analysis of a spectrum of written medical genres including dialogue, autobiography, correspondence, narrative, and polemic that have largely been forgotten by the history of medicine.
In a series of fascinating chapters, the book interweaves the history of hysteria with studies of gender, class, literature, metaphor, narrative, and and religion. We are left, as will be the case with any book as original and intriguing as this one, wanting to know more Arnaud has given us a rich, multilayered understanding of how a category becomes a category.
She shows how medicine can suck in the forms of knowledge, modes of thought, and commonplace morality of the people who form a society, and represent it all, magically metamorphosed into knowledge that belongs exclusively to the medical profession.
The focus on language and its power, while not novel, has not been applied to the concept of a pathology in this way nor to this particularly rich and fascinating pathology. This is a well-researched and well-developed work, which will be of interest to a varied audience.
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