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Neo-Victorian Madness

Sarah E Maier Brenda Ayres

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  • 308 sidor
  • 2020
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-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.
  • Författare: Sarah E Maier, Brenda Ayres
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783030465810
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 308
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-06-02
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG