“And yet when I lay these stories atop each other, no light does pass and no space remains. All my knowledge consumes itself.” So notes the eponymous narrator of “Angelica” (Random House, 331 pages, ...

Female Hysteria was a popular diagnosis in the Victorian days and Victorian doctors treated it with... a very hands-on approach.

Part 1 of this series explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. If the Victorian ...

Something is abuzz in Victorian-era London. Proper upper-class ladies have been seen entering the establishment of Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce) in a state of nervous agitation and emerging, ...

Sony Pictures Classics is in negotiations to acquire domestic rights to the romantic comedy “Hysteria,” centered on the invention of the vibrator in Victorian-era England. “Hysteria” premiered on Sept ...

Tanya Wexler’s “Hysteria” is just a simple little Victorian-era period film, full of pretty costumes and clever remarks, about the invention of the vibrator. Funny that Merchant-Ivory somehow never ...

Exhausted by blockbusters? Here's a small film to treasure. "Hysteria" is a movie of effortless charm and good humor. It's the mostly true story of the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England, ...

There’s an adorable, cutesy vulgarity at work in Hysteria, a semi-serious Victorian-era comedy about the liberating power of the first electrical vibrator. And if you blushed on reading that, imagine ...