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Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Critical Essay by Colleen Hobbs

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SOURCE: "Reading the Symptoms: An Exploration of Repression and Hysteria in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," in Studies in the Novel, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 152-69.

In the excerpt that follows, Hobbs contends that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a character afflicted with a "female malady" brought on by his repression of stereotypically feminine traits.

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