Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Illustrations
Part 1: Reading the Mind
1: Physiognomy
2: Phrenology
3: Mesmerism
Part 2: The Unconscious and the Workings of Memory
5: Associationism and Physiological Psychology
6: Dreams
7: Double Consciousness
8: Memory
Part 3: The Sexual Body
9: Defining Womanhood
10: The Uterine Economy
11: Masculinity and the Control of Sexuality
Part 4: Insanity and Nervous Disorders
12: Moral Management and the Rise of the Psychiatrist
13: Monomania, Moral Insanity, and Moral Responsibility
Part 5: Heredity, Degeneration, and Modern Life
14: Nervous Economies: Modernity and Morbidity
15: Concepts of Descent and Degeneration
16: Inherited Legacies: Idiocy and Criminality
17: Childhood
18: Race and Hybridity
19: Sex in Mind and Education
Notes on Authors
Bibliography

Reviews

For decades, scholars of Victorian history, literature, and culture have referred to nineteenth-century psychiatric thinking about such topics as mesmerism, hysteria, moral management, race, and sexuality, but the major texts in these debates have been scattered and unavailable outside major libraries. Now Embodied Selves brings the most important essays of Victorian psychiatry, from George Combe to Havelock Ellis, together in one volume. Brilliantly chosen and organized, these essays will transform our understanding of Victorian narrative and its discontents.
*Elaine Showalter, Princeton University*