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Women with long-term exhaustion in fictional literature

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Women with long-term exhaustion in fictional literature book

A comparative approach

Women with long-term exhaustion in fictional literature

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Women with long-term exhaustion in fictional literature book

A comparative approach
ByOlaug S. Lian, Catherine Robson, Hilde Bondevik
BookReading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

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Edition 4th Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 15
eBook ISBN 9781315515694

ABSTRACT

In this essay we explore how culturally and historically contingent norms and values related to tiredness and exhaustion are expressed in creative and artistic forms in three literary texts: Emma Bovary, The Yellow Wallpaper and The woman who went to bed for a year. By situating these texts in their sociocultural context and systematically comparing them, we explore patterns of convergence and divergence between them. Important concepts in our discussion are psyche versus soma, illness versus character trait and femininity versus masculinity. Towards the end we discuss the relevance of our analysis for current debates about long-term medically unexplained fatigue.

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