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

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The work Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

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

Title remainder

medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865

Statement of responsibility

Helen Small

Creator

• Small, Helen

Subject

• Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Love in literature
• Medicine in literature
• Mentally ill women in literature
• Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

Helen Small focuses on the figure of the love-mad woman and examines the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the 19th century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention

Member of

• Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

823.809353

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR868.M46

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

specialized