Peter Cryle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 134658 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Cryle |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Cryle |
| FIRMA | CRYLE P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8899-3817 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, L’Affaire Lacenaire
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Normality
This article introduces a collection of articles written in response to a recently published intellectual and cultural history of normality by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens. It points to the fact that this special issue considerably extends and enriches the topical range of the book. The articles that follow discuss, in order, schooling in France at the time of the Revolution, phrenology in Europe and the US from 1840 to 1940, relations betw…
Hat sizes and craniometry
This article examines the relation between commercial activity and knowledge-making, looking at hatmakers in order to open up a more general question about the overlap between the knowledge practices of 19th-century science and those of everyday commercial culture of the time. Phrenology also claims attention here, since it can be said to have occupied an intermediate position between science and commerce. From time to time during the first half …
Geometry in the Boudoir
Disciplinary Perspectives on 'Thinking with' Sex
The following review forum comes out of a set of conversations held during a day-long workshop with Valerie Traub on her book, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (2016), at the Institute for Advan
Eugenics and the normal body
This article examines how the emergence of a statistical concept of the normal at the end of the nineteenth century led to the development of a theory of eugenics, and examines the cultural pathways by which this theory came to shape both the public perception and institutional treatment of people now understood as disabled. The statistical idea of the normal and the theory of eugenics were developed simultaneously in the work of one man: Francis…
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
In this absorbing and well-written book, Jan Goldstein considers a detailed case study dating from the 1820s in which Nanette Leroux, a young Savoy peasant woman with striking symptoms, came to be the object of a quite lengthy case study written more or less collaboratively by two medical figures, one local and one Parisian. Fastidious editorial work was required on the manuscript itself, and the book gives an account of that, but Goldstein’s gre…
Vaginismus
In November 1861, Dr. J. Marion Sims, an American gynecologist, named and described the syndrome of vaginismus, which linked symptoms of vaginal hypersensitivity to muscular spasm. The only rational treatment for this disorder, said Sims, was surgery. His work was taken up immediately in France, but the story of its interpretation and application is a rather complicated one. Félix Roubaud, a leading specialist on matters of impotence and sterilit…
Recent Developments in the Intellectual History of Medicine
The history of medicine is probably best thought of as a wide range of different types of inquiry, rather than a single, well-defined field. It can involve, among other things, the history of institutions, technologies, and outstanding individuals. The articles gathered in this special issue are offered specifically as contributions to the intellectual history of medicine. Each shows, in its own way, how a particular disorder became conceptualize…
Frigidity
This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, sh
The average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse
The concept of normal in nineteenth-century medical thought was by no means as straightforward as is often supposed. The notions of ‘norm’, ‘normal’ and ‘normativity’ were not historically stable, and the use of those terms in modern theoretical talk stands to gain in precision by taking account of their troubled genealogy. Many French scientific authors of the nineteenth century put the normal at or near the heart of their epistemology without a…
The natural and the normal in the history of sexuality
Les Choses et les Mots
In Solitary Sex, Thomas Laqueur adopts a position that might be called constructivist but not discursivist. He does not speak, as historians with an allegiance to Foucault's work often do, of 'invention', but argues that masturbation was 'something that had been perfectly well understood since Antiquity, even if it was variously classified and named'. The thing was there already: the word, and any change in words, came later. This article asks so…
Interrogating the Work of Thomas W. Laqueur
Building a Sexological Concept Through Fictional Narrative
This paper raises a question about the role of literary texts in intellectual and cultural history, taking the particular example of middle-brow novels published by a set of Parisian publishers during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. It locates those novels with respect to medical writing about sexual pathology, with a particular focus on the notion of female frigidity, which was something of a new…
Charlatanism in the ‘Age of Reason’
(2006). Charlatanism in the ‘Age of Reason’. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 243-249
Foretelling Pathology
This paper examines a number of French middle-brow novels, usually called at the time romans de murs, from the period 1880–1910. It shows how, in these stories, doctors are shown to foretell the course of narrative through the diagnosis of certain pathologies, especially psychosexual ones. These pathologies are thus represented as implacable narrative programmes. In effect, most of these novels renounce the standard fictional resources of intrigu…
La Mettrie and Charlatanism
This paper contributes to a genealogy of charlatanism by tracing two figures which eventually come to overlap: the street charlatan or operator, known for his eloquence and deceptive skill, and the comically incompetent doctor, represented classically in France in the theatre of Molière. The paper argues that eighteenth-century France gives the term ‘charlatan’ new moral weight while extending it to fields outside medicine, most notably to philos…
Research in French
(2003). RESEARCH IN FRENCH: RESPONDING TO THE IMPERATIVES OF CURRICULUM. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 29-40
Beyond the canonical Sade
Breaking the Furniture in Erotic Narrative
Journal Article BREAKING THE FURNITURE IN EROTIC NARRATIVE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF DESIRE Get access PETER CRYLE PETER CRYLE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LII, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 409–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LII.4.409 Published: 01 October 1998
Locating Popular Culture
The Popularity of the Canon
Teaching for Cultural Performance
Marie Maclean 1928-1994
Interrogating the Work of Thomas W. Laqueur
Eugenics and the normal body
This article examines how the emergence of a statistical concept of the normal at the end of the nineteenth century led to the development of a theory of eugenics, and examines the cultural pathways by which this theory came to shape both the public perception and institutional treatment of people now understood as disabled. The statistical idea of the normal and the theory of eugenics were developed simultaneously in the work of one man: Francis…
The natural and the normal in the history of sexuality
Les Choses et les Mots
In Solitary Sex, Thomas Laqueur adopts a position that might be called constructivist but not discursivist. He does not speak, as historians with an allegiance to Foucault's work often do, of 'invention', but argues that masturbation was 'something that had been perfectly well understood since Antiquity, even if it was variously classified and named'. The thing was there already: the word, and any change in words, came later. This article asks so…
Foretelling Pathology
This paper examines a number of French middle-brow novels, usually called at the time romans de murs, from the period 1880–1910. It shows how, in these stories, doctors are shown to foretell the course of narrative through the diagnosis of certain pathologies, especially psychosexual ones. These pathologies are thus represented as implacable narrative programmes. In effect, most of these novels renounce the standard fictional resources of intrigu…
A Case Study in Course Revision, or, Errors of Comedy
Cryle’, Fread’man, Spencer Versus Boak
A Further Reply to Denis Boak
(1983). A Further Reply to Denis Boak. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 275-278
The Thematics of Commitment
Viewing thematic writing as the differentiation and elaboration of cultural knowledge, P. M. Cryle applies this new kind of thematics to the commitment" most often mentioned by literary critics in connection with existentialist literature. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Universit…
Drieu La Rochelle and the Picture Gallery Novel
Taking Sade Serially
EROTICISM, WE SOMETIMES NEED TO BE REMINDED, is a serious business. Writers associated with the surrealist movement have often taken it upon themselves to do the reminding, none more eloquently than Robert Desnos: L'esprit gaulois dans ce qu'il peut avoir de plus repugnant, la paillardise la plus 6loigne de l'amour et toutes ces horribles joies que le vulgaire nomme grivoiseries, bagatelles, lgeretes ... representent en general l'rotisme pour les…
The Imagination of Reference
In a radical attempt to explore and restructure the presuppositions in philosophy of language, Morot-Sir examines such current concepts as natural languages, necessity, and implicite, explicite. Challenging such thinkers as Bergson, Heidegger, Chomsky and Rorty, he argues that is the fundamental act by which signs and references exist and make sense, and that any linguistic expression belongs to the experience of As such, he writes, is the centre…
Marie Maclean 1928-1994
The Popularity of the Canon
Teaching for Cultural Performance
Breaking the Furniture in Erotic Narrative
Journal Article BREAKING THE FURNITURE IN EROTIC NARRATIVE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF DESIRE Get access PETER CRYLE PETER CRYLE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LII, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 409–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LII.4.409 Published: 01 October 1998
Locating Popular Culture
Beyond the canonical Sade
Research in French
(2003). RESEARCH IN FRENCH: RESPONDING TO THE IMPERATIVES OF CURRICULUM. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 29-40
Charlatanism in the ‘Age of Reason’
(2006). Charlatanism in the ‘Age of Reason’. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 243-249
Foretelling Pathology
This paper examines a number of French middle-brow novels, usually called at the time romans de murs, from the period 1880–1910. It shows how, in these stories, doctors are shown to foretell the course of narrative through the diagnosis of certain pathologies, especially psychosexual ones. These pathologies are thus represented as implacable narrative programmes. In effect, most of these novels renounce the standard fictional resources of intrigu…
La Mettrie and Charlatanism
This paper contributes to a genealogy of charlatanism by tracing two figures which eventually come to overlap: the street charlatan or operator, known for his eloquence and deceptive skill, and the comically incompetent doctor, represented classically in France in the theatre of Molière. The paper argues that eighteenth-century France gives the term ‘charlatan’ new moral weight while extending it to fields outside medicine, most notably to philos…
Building a Sexological Concept Through Fictional Narrative
This paper raises a question about the role of literary texts in intellectual and cultural history, taking the particular example of middle-brow novels published by a set of Parisian publishers during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. It locates those novels with respect to medical writing about sexual pathology, with a particular focus on the notion of female frigidity, which was something of a new…
Les Choses et les Mots
In Solitary Sex, Thomas Laqueur adopts a position that might be called constructivist but not discursivist. He does not speak, as historians with an allegiance to Foucault's work often do, of 'invention', but argues that masturbation was 'something that had been perfectly well understood since Antiquity, even if it was variously classified and named'. The thing was there already: the word, and any change in words, came later. This article asks so…
Interrogating the Work of Thomas W. Laqueur
The average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse
The concept of normal in nineteenth-century medical thought was by no means as straightforward as is often supposed. The notions of ‘norm’, ‘normal’ and ‘normativity’ were not historically stable, and the use of those terms in modern theoretical talk stands to gain in precision by taking account of their troubled genealogy. Many French scientific authors of the nineteenth century put the normal at or near the heart of their epistemology without a…
The natural and the normal in the history of sexuality
Frigidity
This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four centuries, sh
Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
In this absorbing and well-written book, Jan Goldstein considers a detailed case study dating from the 1820s in which Nanette Leroux, a young Savoy peasant woman with striking symptoms, came to be the object of a quite lengthy case study written more or less collaboratively by two medical figures, one local and one Parisian. Fastidious editorial work was required on the manuscript itself, and the book gives an account of that, but Goldstein’s gre…
Vaginismus
In November 1861, Dr. J. Marion Sims, an American gynecologist, named and described the syndrome of vaginismus, which linked symptoms of vaginal hypersensitivity to muscular spasm. The only rational treatment for this disorder, said Sims, was surgery. His work was taken up immediately in France, but the story of its interpretation and application is a rather complicated one. Félix Roubaud, a leading specialist on matters of impotence and sterilit…
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