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Hysteria repeating itself: Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch
| dc.contributor.author | Wynne, Deborah | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-15T16:24:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-15T16:24:43Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-12-20 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wynne, D. (2006). Hysteria Repeating Itself: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch’, Women’s Writing, 12(1), 85-97. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0969-9082 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09699080500200251 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10034/229211 | en |
| dc.description | This article is not available through ChesterRep. | en_GB |
| dc.description.abstract | This article discusses Lois the witch, (Elizabeth Gaskell's fictional representation of the Salem witch trials) which was first published serially in Dickens's All The Year Round in 1859. This serialisation led to numerous conservative accounts in the periodical press of the role of the hysterical woman throughout history. In Lois, however, with its representation of mass hysteria, Gaskell refutes the widespread Victorian belief that hysteria is 'natural' for women - a symptom of their vulnerable bodies and minds. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - English Language & Literature. | en_GB |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Lois the witch | en_GB |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Elizabeth Gaskell | en_GB |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | hysteria | en_GB |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699080500200251 | en_GB |
| dc.rights | Archived with thanks to Women's Writing | en_GB |
| dc.title | Hysteria repeating itself: Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1747-5848 | en |
| dc.contributor.department | University College Chester | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Women's Writing | en_GB |
| html.description.abstract | This article discusses Lois the witch, (Elizabeth Gaskell's fictional representation of the Salem witch trials) which was first published serially in Dickens's All The Year Round in 1859. This serialisation led to numerous conservative accounts in the periodical press of the role of the hysterical woman throughout history. In Lois, however, with its representation of mass hysteria, Gaskell refutes the widespread Victorian belief that hysteria is 'natural' for women - a symptom of their vulnerable bodies and minds. |