Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 / Helen Small
Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998. Second Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432130
ISBN: 0198184913
Physical description; x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index. 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. Subjects; Andrae, A.1800-1899. Geschichte 1800-1865. 19th century. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. 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. Medical fiction History and criticism. Mentally ill women in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Medicine in literature. Love in literature. Mental illness. Love. Literature and mental illness Great Britain History 19th century.
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