The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction /
"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 while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of...
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
[2006]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
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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.