Love's Madness

Love's Madness
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 0198184913
ISBN-13 : 9780198184911
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Book Synopsis Love's Madness by : Helen Small

Download or read book Love's Madness written by Helen Small and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.


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