Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-century France

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Cornell University Press, 1994 - 295 pages

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T Barthélémy Dermographic arm etchings
21
F Allard and H Meige Lithographic man
23
T Barthélémy Dermographic sign of Satan
25
Lannois Autographic woman Angéline Donadieu
27
Trepsat Dermographic diagnosis
28
Max Müller Illustration of larynx
46
Edouard Manet Gare SaintLazare
60
JeanBaptiste Greuze La Cruche cassée
198
Georges Lacombe Isis
215
Gustave Courbet LOrigine du monde
222
Bourneville and P Régnard Arc de cercle
241
Paul Richer Tableau synoptique de la grande attaque hystérique
243
J J Moreau de Tours Tree of nervosity
247
Emile Zola RougonMacquart family tree
248
Top Salpêtrière Hospital one of Charcots patients Bottom Salpêtrière Hospital wax cast of same patient
255
Index
287

Eugène Girard La Femme émancipée répandant la lumière sur le monde pétroleuse
213

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Janet Beizer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France, also from Cornell, and Family Plots: Balzac's Narrative Generations.

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