Neo-Victorian Madness

Neo-Victorian Madness
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9783030465827
ISBN-13 : 3030465829
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Book Synopsis Neo-Victorian Madness by : Sarah E. Maier

Download or read book Neo-Victorian Madness written by Sarah E. Maier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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