Literature and Medicine I

Works Cited

Agacinski, Sylviane. “The Question of the Other (Critique of Egocentrism).” Trans. Oliver Davis. French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader. Subjectivity, Identity, Alterity. Ed. Christina Howells. London: Routledge, 2004. 39-55.

Bataille, Georges. Essential Writings. Ed. Michael Richardson. London: Sage Publications, 1998.

Beizer, Janet. Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994.

Benthien, Claudia. Haut: Literaturgeschichte – Körperbilder – Grenzdiskurse. 1999. 2^nd ed. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2001.

Bordo, Susan. “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity.” Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Ed. Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, and Sarah Stanbury. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 90-110.

Bronfen, Elizabeth. The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.

Brooks, Peter. Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.

Cooke, Rachel. “‘I Used to Feel Like People Were Trampling All over Me to Get to My Husband. I Had Print Marks on My Body.’” The Observer 25 May 2008. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/25/paulauster>.

Diamond, Elin. Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater. London: Routledge, 1997.

Didi-Huberman, Georges. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. 1982. Trans. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Elkins, James. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. 1996. New York: Harvest, 1997.

Filipovic, Elena. “Surrealism in 1938: The Exhibition at War.” Surrealism, Politics, and Culture. Ed. Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2003. 179-203.

Foucault, Michel. “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.” 1971. Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault. Ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977. 139-64.

---. “A Preface to Transgression.” Bataille: A Critical Reader. Ed. Fred Botting and Scott Wilson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. 24-40.

Gubar, Susan. “‘The Blank Page’ and the Issues of Female Creativity.” Critical Inquiry 8.2 (Winter 1981): 243-63.

Hurley, Kelly. The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the fin de siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Hustvedt, Siri. “Being a Man.” A Plea for Eros: Essays. New York: Picador, 2006. 95-103.

---. The Blindfold. New York: Picador, 1992.

---. “Extracts from a Story of the Wounded Self.” A Plea for Eros: Essays. New York: Picador, 2006. 195-228.

---. Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.

---. The Sorrows of an American. London: Sceptre, 2008.

---. What I Loved. New York: Holt, 2003.

---. Yonder: Essays. New York: Holt, 1998.

Irigaray, Luce. An Ethics of Sexual Difference. 1984. Trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill. London: Athlone, 1993.

Russo, Mary. “Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory.” Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Ed. Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, and Sarah Stanbury. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 318-36.

Schaps, Regina. Hysterie und Weiblichkeit: Wissenschaftsmythen über die Frau. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 1992.

Schneider, Manfred. “Hysterie als Gesamtkunstwerk: Aufstieg und Verfall einer Semiotik der Weiblichkeit.” Merkur 39 (1985): 879-95.

Shildrick, Margrit. Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics. London: Routledge, 1997.

Showalter, Elaine. Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture. London: Picador, 1997.

Sontag, Susan. “On Photography.” 1977. A Susan Sontag Reader. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. 349-67.

Stallybrass, Peter, and Allon White. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. London: Methuen, 1986.

Starobinski, Jean. “The Inside and the Outside.” Trans. Frederick Brown. The Hudson Review 28.3 (1975): 333-51.

Notes

• 1) Hustvedt’s references to hysteria and other medical disorders such as anorexia nervosa are carefully researched. In the back of the book, she lists a number of scientific publications that she consulted in her research; for her interpretation of hysteria, Hustvedt also profited from her sister Asti Hustvedt’s research – whose unpublished Ph.D thesis serves as the basis for Violet’s dissertation – research in the Salpêtrière Hospital archives (Loved 370).
• 2) In a related scene in What I Loved, Bill’s schizophrenic brother Dan exclaims: “‘You cut my hair!’” when Bill comes to the hospital with short hair (301).
• 3) Charcot called the Salpêtrière a “museum of living pathology” (quoted, for example, in Bronfen 174).
• 4) Janet Beizer notes that “late twentieth-century medicine finds the condition [dermagraphism] in approximately 5 percent of the general population” (20) – it is thus not a phenomenon reduced to hysterical patients at the Salpêtrière. In the novel, Violet demonstrates it on her own arm (Loved 74).
• 5) For an elaborate account of literary representations of woman as a blank slate to be inscribed, a passive creation of the male artist, see Gubar’s “‘The Blank Page’ and the Issues of Female Creativity.”
• 6) A Google image search will exhibit Augustine starring in the “attitudes passionelles,” as captured in one of the iconography’s photographic plates.