The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction / Valerie Pedlar.
Material type: TextSeries: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 46.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)Content type:- text
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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Mental illness in literature
- Men in literature
- Men -- Mental health
- Persons
- Literature
- History, Modern 1601-
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- History
- Named Groups
- Humanities
- Mental Disorders
- Medicine in Literature
- History, 19th Century
- Men
- Fiction and related items
- Crime and mystery
- Historical mysteries
- Medicine
- Other branches of medicine
- Clinical psychology
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English fiction
- Men in literature
- Men -- Mental health
- Mental illness in literature
- 1800-1899
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- PR878.M46 P43 2006eb
- 2007 E-190
- WM 49
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Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge -- Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud -- Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash -- Madness and marriage -- The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
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"Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. This book corrects this imbalance by exploring a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. The book presents in-depth studies of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins' Basil and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings -- and fears -- of mental degeneracy."--Publisher's description.
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