The most dreadful visitation : : male madness in Victorian fiction / / Valerie Pedlar.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).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...
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| Superior document: | Liverpool English texts and studies ; 46 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
46. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (182 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.