Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel - Injured Minds, Ruined Lives

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women's mental and emotional afflictions.

About the author

Deborah Weiss is Professor of English at the University of Alabama

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Weiss
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2024
• EAN: 9781526175717
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7571-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature