The most dreadful visitation male madness in Victorian fiction

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).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. But...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pedlar, Valerie, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2006.
Series:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 46.
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Table of Contents:
  • Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge
  • Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud
  • Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash
  • Madness and marriage
  • The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula.