Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront�, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.
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"Focusing on texts both widely known and obscure, but bringing to all the same discriminating and lively intelligence, the author succeeds in doing exactly what she ascribes to such authors as Jane Austen: she breathes now meaning and life into old and constricted conventions....A fascinating and rewarding contribution to the reader's understanding of every text she considers."--Choice
"Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, this study provides a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the early nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity and about narrative convention."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Small's thorough attention to context, registering social and political resonances, allows her to offer genuinely fresh readings of...canonical treatments of love's madness...as well as to bring fresh interest to lesser-read works..."--The Wordsworth Circle
"Small illuminates and complicates the intersection between literary and scientific studies, and her book will appeal to literary theorists and social historians."--H-PCAACA
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Helen Small is at University of Bristol.
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