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Valerie Pedlar

The Most Dreadful Visitation - Male Madness In Victorian Fiction

English · Hardback

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Zusammenfassung An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Insurrection and Imagination: Idiocy and Barnaby Rudge 2. Thwarted Lovers: Basil and Maud 3. Wrongful Confinement! Sensationalism and Hard Cash 4. Madness and Marriage 5. The Zoophagus Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

Authors	Valerie Pedlar
Publisher	University Of Chicago Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.03.2007

EAN	9780853238393
ISBN	978-0-85323-839-3
No. of pages	182
Dimensions	159 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Series	Liverpool English Texts and Studies Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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