Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
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Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
Book Details
- Author
- Helen Small
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Movements & Periods
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780198184911
- ISBN-10
- 0198184913
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ISBN: 0198184913
Author: Small, Helen
Condition: New
Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.
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Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
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