Creating character : theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction / / Helena Ifill |
Autore | Ifill Helena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8 |
Collana | Interventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Personality in literature Characters and characteristics in literature Literature Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 LITERARY CRITICISM / General Ireland |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Degeneration
Education Heredity Insanity Mary Elizabeth Braddon Responsibility Self-Determinism Sensation novels Wilkie Collins Willpower |
ISBN |
1-5261-3627-9
1-5261-2658-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I: Self-control, willpower and monomania -- 1. Basil and No Name -- 2. John Marchmont's Legacy -- Part II: Heredity and degeneration -- 3. The Lady Lisle -- 4. Armadale -- Part III: Education, environment and circumstance -- 5. Man and Wife -- 6. Lost for Love -- Conclusion -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795051303321 |
Ifill Helena
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creating character : theories of nature and nurture in Victorian sensation fiction / / Helena Ifill |
Autore | Ifill Helena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8 |
Collana | Interventions : Rethinking the Nineteenth Century |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Personality in literature Characters and characteristics in literature Literature Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 LITERARY CRITICISM / General Ireland |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Degeneration
Education Heredity Insanity Mary Elizabeth Braddon Responsibility Self-Determinism Sensation novels Wilkie Collins Willpower |
ISBN |
1-5261-3627-9
1-5261-2658-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I: Self-control, willpower and monomania -- 1. Basil and No Name -- 2. John Marchmont's Legacy -- Part II: Heredity and degeneration -- 3. The Lady Lisle -- 4. Armadale -- Part III: Education, environment and circumstance -- 5. Man and Wife -- 6. Lost for Love -- Conclusion -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822342803321 |
Ifill Helena
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 | ||
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From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / / Åsa Jansson |
Autore | Jansson Åsa |
Edizione | [First edition, 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 306.09 |
Collana | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
Soggetto topico |
Depression, Mental - History - 19th century
Melancholy - History - 19th century Psychiatry - History - 19th century - United Kingdom |
Soggetto non controllato |
Social History
History of Medicine Psychiatry History of Britain and Ireland Mood disorders Psychiatric illness Physiology Psychology Statistical and diagnostic practices Asylum records Insanity Madness Mental pain Suicidal tendencies Psychological distress Open Access Social & cultural history History of medicine European history |
ISBN |
9783030548025
9783030548018 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem -- 2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood -- 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine -- 4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry -- 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia -- 6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum -- 7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910420942303321 |
Jansson Åsa
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Springer Nature, 2021 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction / / Valerie Pedlar [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Pedlar Valerie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Liverpool English texts and studies |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Mental illness in literature Men in literature Men - Mental health |
Soggetto non controllato |
victoriaans
male madness mannen victorian gekte Charles Dickens Dracula Insanity Masculinity Renfield |
ISBN |
1-78138-773-7
1-84631-418-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge -- Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud -- Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash -- Madness and marriage -- The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996218386303316 |
Pedlar Valerie
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction / / Valerie Pedlar [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Pedlar Valerie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Liverpool English texts and studies |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Mental illness in literature Men in literature Men - Mental health |
Soggetto non controllato |
victoriaans
male madness mannen victorian gekte Charles Dickens Dracula Insanity Masculinity Renfield |
ISBN |
1-78138-773-7
1-84631-418-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge -- Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud -- Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash -- Madness and marriage -- The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143983603321 |
Pedlar Valerie
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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