Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865

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Label

Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865

Creator

• Small, Helen

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

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

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction