General:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women

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Revision as of 22:48, 6 November 2009

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Name: Heather Meek

Email: heather.meek@uregina.ca

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Role: Assistant Professor

Institution: University of Regina

Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: English

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Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.



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