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Titolo: | Neo-Victorian Madness : Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 809.93353 |
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Soggetto topico: | Literature, Modern - 20th century |
Literature, Modern - 21st century | |
Literature, Modern - 19th century | |
Fiction | |
Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | |
Motion pictures - Great Britain | |
Science - History | |
Contemporary Literature | |
Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
Fiction Literature | |
Adaptation Studies | |
British Film and TV | |
History of Science | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MaierSarah E |
AyresBrenda | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1/Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier -- Chapter 2/“I Am Not an Angel”: Madness and Addiction in Neo–Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre, Kate Faber Oestreich -- Chapter 3/ “We Should Go Mad”: The Madwoman and Her Nurse, Rachel M. Friars and Brenda Ayres -- Chapter 4/The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish’s Strange Music, Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw -- Chapter 5/“A Necessary Madness”: PTSD in Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club Novels, Brenda Ayres -- Chapter 6/Unreliable Neo-Victorian Narrators, “Unwomen,” and Femmes Fatales: Nell Lyshon’s The Colour of Milk and Jane Harris’ Gillespie and I, Eckart Voigts -- Chapter 7/“Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, Marshall Needleman Armintor -- Chapter 8/The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman, Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier -- Chapter 9/ Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Its Adaptation, Barbara Braid -- Chapter 10/Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful, Tim Posada -- Chapter 11/The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC’s Sherlock, John C. Murray -- Chapter 12/ Gendered (De)Illusions: Imaginative Madness in Neo-Victorian Childhood Trauma Narratives, Sarah E. Maier. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights. . |
Titolo autorizzato: | Neo-Victorian Madness |
ISBN: | 3-030-46582-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910484622403321 |
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