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.
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon,
1996.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191674396 0191674397 |