Uncanny or Marvelous?: The Fantastic and Somatoform Disorders in Wuthering Heights and Villette

Drawing on historicized illness studies by scholars such as Sally Shuttleworth, Athena Vrettos, Elaine Showalter and others, I identify the ways in which Victorian illnesses (specifically hysteria) correlate with the fantastic in Wuthering Heights and Villette. To frame this argument, I apply twent...

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Main Author: Hirtle, Kala
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14223