The Resource Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
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The item Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also brings out the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Contents
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- Love's madness
- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine
- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811
- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction
- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre
- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Label
- Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Title
- Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Subject
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- Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Love in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also brings out the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Small, Helen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Literature and mental illness
- Women and literature
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Love in literature
- Label
- Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Love's madness -- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine -- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 -- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction -- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre -- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Love's madness -- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine -- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 -- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction -- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre -- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Love in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in literature
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