Most Dreadful Visitation : Male Madness In Victorian Fiction, Hardcover

by Valerie Pedlar

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Most Dreadful Visitation : Male Madness In Victorian Fiction, Hardcover by Pedlar, Valerie, ISBN 0853238391, ISBN-13 9780853238393, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In The Most Dreadful Visitation, Valerie Pedlar redresses the balance. This study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings - and fears - of mental degeneracy.

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Year: 2006
• ISBN: 9780853238393
• Condition: Fine

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