Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Ankhi Mukherjee is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index