TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pedlar,Valerie
TI  - The most dreadful visitation: male madness in Victorian fiction 
T2  - Liverpool English texts and studies
SN  - 1781387737
AV  - PR878.M46 P43 2006eb
U1  - 823.8093561 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Men
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Mental illness in literature
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - History, Modern 1601-
KW  - History
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medicine in Literature
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - Named Groups
KW  - Persons
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Clinical psychology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Crime and mystery
KW  - fast
KW  - Fiction and related items
KW  - Historical mysteries
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Other branches of medicine
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - history
KW  - psychology
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Multi-User
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "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. This book corrects this imbalance by exploring a wide 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. The book presents in-depth studies of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins' Basil and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings -- and fears -- of mental degeneracy."--Publisher's description
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vjmzb
ER  -