Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 /

Helen Small focuses on the figure of the love-mad woman and examines the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the 19th century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Small, Helen
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Helen Small focuses on the figure of the love-mad woman and examines the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the 19th century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191674396
0191674397