Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology

Swenson, Kristine

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Stiles

2020

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Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Stiles

2020

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Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate

Freeman

2023

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Talia Schaffer has noted that care work needn’t be joined with the feeling of care. This article extends this insight to explore medical kink (“sadomedicine”) as a form of distantiated yet attuned care work that resituates the literary debates on symptomatic versus surface reading. Through the performances of Bob Flanagan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s 1882 novel Doctor Zay, the 1991 film Misery and its source novel, and Maria Beatty’s 2009 film Bandaged, sadomedicine is situated as an engagement with symptoms that delights in surfaces but that might also exacerbate symptoms, introduce them from outside the text, and/or attend to symptoms disconnected from deep pathologies. The term “parasymptomatic reading” conceptualizes this play with symptoms and the surface/depth distinction: it captures the role of the parasympathetic nervous system and its connection to surface bodily responses, the dialectic of sympathy and symptomaticity, and the meaning of the prefix “para” to indicate both proximity and error.

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Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment

2021

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The condition of being subjected to both natu ral (in the scientific and lay sense) conditions and to others' power affectable "I": The scientific construction of non-European minds -Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race By disaffection, I emphasize not only emotional distance, alienation, antipathy, and isolation but also to center this word's other connotation of disloyalty to regimes of power.-Martin F. Manalansan IV, "Servicing the World: Flexible Filipinos and the Unsecured Life" I thus am able to conceive of the opacity of the other for me, without reproach for my opacity to him. To feel in solidarity with him or to build with him or to like what he does, it is not necessary for me to grasp him.-Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation white feelings, white tears, white fragility, white women's tears, white men's tears: these phrases circulate within popu lar antiracist social justice discourse galvanized by the Black Lives Matter movement. These phrases articulate frustration with the ongoing manifestations of what scholars have

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Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology

Cited by 10 publications

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Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure'

Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate

Disaffected from the Culture of Sentiment

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