SOURCE: "'Girls and Their Blind Visions': George Eliot, Hysteria, and History," in Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 229-72.
In the following excerpt, Ender contends that George Eliot's Daniel Deronda exemplifies the problematic manner in which hysteria—as an illness that simultaneously resists and demands interpretation—informs both the content and the structure of literary representation.
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