Voices from the Asylum by Susannah Wilson
Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.
her vast knowledge of the contemporary judicial system helps to contextualize them for the uninitiated reader* Kathy Comfort, French Review *
Susannah Wilson is a scholar of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture and literature, with a specialist interest in women's writing; psychoanalytical theory; the history of psychiatry in France; social history; and 'self-writing' (autobiography, memoir, correspondence). She studied for a BA (Hons) in French Studies and a Masters degree at the University of Manchester, and completed her D.Phil. in French at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2005.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199579358 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199579350 |
| Title | Voices from the Asylum |
| Author | Susannah Wilson |
| Series | Oxford Modern Languages And Literature Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2010-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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