The Most Dreadful Visitation
Title | The Most Dreadful Visitation PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Pedlar |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0853238391 |
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The 'Most Dreadful Visitation.' This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins's Basil, and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings--and fears--of mental degeneracy.An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.
The Life & Times of Bishop Ullathorne, 1806-1889
Title | The Life & Times of Bishop Ullathorne, 1806-1889 PDF eBook |
Author | Cuthbert Butler |
Publisher | London, Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Limited |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Catholics |
ISBN |
American Notes
Title | American Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Title | The Adventures of Oliver Twist PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Golden-hair
Title | Golden-hair PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Lascelles Wraxall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
The Pickwick papers. Pictures from Italy. American notes. Bleak house. The uncommercial traveller. A child's history of England. Barnaby Rudge. Miscellaneous. The mystery of Edwin Drood
Title | The Pickwick papers. Pictures from Italy. American notes. Bleak house. The uncommercial traveller. A child's history of England. Barnaby Rudge. Miscellaneous. The mystery of Edwin Drood PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1362 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Annual Register
Title | The Annual Register PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 648 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |