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

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description [xiii], 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents 1. Love's Madness -- 2. Love-Mad Women and the Rhetoric of Gentlemanly Medicine -- 3. Hyperbole and the Love-Mad Woman: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 -- 4. Love-Mad Women and Political Insurrection in Regency Fiction -- 5. The Hyena's Laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre -- 6. The Woman in White, Great Expectations, and the Limits of Medicine Analysis English fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-248) and index Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Love in literature. Medicine in literature. Mentally ill women in literature. Mental illness in literature. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women in literature. LC no. 95033313 ISBN 019812273X (cloth : acid-free paper) 0198184913 (paperback)

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