TY  - GEN
AU  - Julie Lokis-Adkins
TI  - Deadly Desires: A Psychoanalytic Study of Female Sexual Perversion and Widowhood in Fin-de-Siecle Women's Writing
SN  - 9781780491387
PY  - 2013///0601
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - During the fin-de-siecle, stories about hysterical women filled the air of Paris and the novels emerging during this era conveyed this hysteria and openly portrayed the symptoms of the women being treated at the Salpetiere. This book examines the emergence of hysterical discourse and its influence on women's writing, specifically focusing on the presentation of female sexuality in three different narratives
ER  -