Title Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 / Helen Small

Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations Summary Helen Small focuses on the figure of the love-mad woman and examines the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the 19th century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Medicine in literature. Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Mentally ill women in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Love in literature. English fiction Literature and medicine Literature and mental illness Loss (Psychology) in literature Love in literature Medicine in literature Mentally ill women in literature Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191674396 0191674397

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