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The Most Dreadful Visitation. Male Madness in Victorian Fiction.
Valerie Pedlar
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Description for The Most Dreadful Visitation. Male Madness in Victorian Fiction.
Hardcover. Explores a range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The ‘Most Dreadful Visitation.’ This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The ‘Most Dreadful Visitation.’ This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780853238393
SKU
V9780853238393
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About Valerie Pedlar
Valerie Pedlar teaches at the Open University in Manchester. She has contributed to a number of publications including 'The Nineteenth Century Novels: Identities' (ed. Dennis Walder Routledge 2001.)
Reviews for The Most Dreadful Visitation. Male Madness in Victorian Fiction.
In The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction Valerie Pedlar looks at the treatment of "fears, insecurities and ambiguities concerning the state of manhood" in representations of male insanity (pp.1-2). Pedlar pursues her topics-idiocy, erotic frustration, wrongful confinement, madness in marriage degeneracy-across a wide range of texts, some of them familiar (by Dickens, Tennyson, Trollope, Bram Stoker) and ... Read more