Chapter 3. The Bostonians: Representing the “Sentiment of Sex”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Nineteenth-Century Hysteria: The Medical Context 25
6. Chapter 2. Henry James and George Sand: Scenes of Passion, Scenes of Hysteria 67
7. Chapter 3. The Bostonians: Representing the “Sentiment of Sex” 99
8. Chapter 4. Engendering the Mind: James, Freud, and George Sand 135
9. Chapter 5. Reading Sexual Difference: The Case of George Sand 187
10. Chapter 6. "Girls and Their Blind Visions": George Eliot, Hysteria, and History 229
11. “Always Secrets of the Alcove”: A Postscript 273
12. Bibliography 289
13. Index 301