The Resource Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865, Helen Small
Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865, Helen Small
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- Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also brings out the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others
- Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. Love's Madness traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association
- This original and highly readable study challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between medicine and the novel. A major addition to nineteenth-century studies, it will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, feminism, social history, and the history of medicine
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Contents
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- Love's madness
- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine
- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811
- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction
- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre
- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Label
- Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Title
- Love's madness
- Title remainder
- medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Small
- Subject
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- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Love
- Love in literature
- Medical fiction -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Medicine in literature
- Mental Disorders
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Women -- psychology
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in Literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also brings out the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others
- Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. Love's Madness traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association
- This original and highly readable study challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between medicine and the novel. A major addition to nineteenth-century studies, it will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, feminism, social history, and the history of medicine
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Small, Helen
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR868.M46
- LC item number
- S63 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Literature and mental illness
- Literature and medicine
- Women and literature
- Medical fiction
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Love in literature
- Medicine in Literature
- Love
- Mental Disorders
- Women
- Label
- Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865, Helen Small
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-248) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
- Love's madness -- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine -- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 -- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction -- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre -- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Control code
- 32969803
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95033313
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865, Helen Small
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Love's madness -- Love-mad women and the rhetoric of gentlemanly medicine -- Hyperbole and the love-mad women: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 -- Love-mad women and political insurrection in Regency fiction -- The hyena's laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre -- The woman in white, Great expectations, and the limits of medicine
- Control code
- 32969803
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198122739
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 95033313
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Loss (Psychology) in literature
- Love
- Love in literature
- Medical fiction -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Medicine in literature
- Mental Disorders
- Mentally ill women in literature
- Women -- psychology
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Medicine in Literature
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