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Reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, this book develops a concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire.

Twelve Good Men and True brings together some of the most ambitious and innovative work yet undertaken on the history of an English legal institution. These eleven essays examine the composition of the criminal trial jury in England, the behavior of those who sat as jurors, and popular and official attitudes toward the institution of jury trial fro

The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of readers interested in penetrating beyond the canonical texts of Russian literature. The introduction focuses on the central issues and