Neo-Victorian Madness
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Neo-Victorian Madness

Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media

Herausgegeben: Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda
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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-norm...