Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds
Title | Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Mathilde Vialard |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2024-02-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1003845347 |
Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching health and wellbeing from a humanities perspective, Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. The novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, two prominent writers of the genre, often portray characters suffering from mental illnesses commonly diagnosed at the time, among which are monomania, moral insanity, melancholia and hypochondria. By studying the fictional works of Braddon and Collins alongside medical texts from the nineteenth century, it sets out to investigate how these novels fictionally represented real mental sufferings. This book considers the different mental illnesses the characters of sensation novels develop inside and outside the home as they struggle to define their own identity against Victorian social expectations. It demonstrates how these novels fictionalised the crisis of the leisured upper classes, who spent most of their time at home, and found themselves at odds with a society that increasingly separated the domestic and working environments, while also considering the impact that a lack of a sense of domestic belonging could have on their mental health. Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds further analyses the extent to which domesticity—in its excess or lack—could afflict the mental health of Victorian men and women through the fictional representation of suicidal thoughts and acts in the novels of Braddon and Collins.
Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds
Title | Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Mathilde Vialard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9781032058641 |
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890: Domestic sensationalism
Title | Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890: Domestic sensationalism PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 512 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | English fiction |
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A Sensation Novel
Title | A Sensation Novel PDF eBook |
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Release | 1997 |
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In the Secret Theatre of Home
Title | In the Secret Theatre of Home PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Bourne Taylor |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories, English |
ISBN | 9780415007078 |
Mind Over Matter
Title | Mind Over Matter PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Roberts |
Publisher | HarperCollins Australia |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1460800222 |
Theatrical agent Aurora Fields kept her personal life strictly separate from her professional one, but lines were crossed the moment she met David Brady. He had asked her client to participate in his documentary on paranormal phenomena. Aurora agreed, but she stayed on hand to protect the woman from exploitation as fiercely as a mother tigress. Somehow David saw that Aurora's tough self–image was a little soft around the edges, and he was determined to discover what she was trying to hide. He'd always considered himself a good judge of people, so why did each moment he spent with Aurora leave her as enigmatic –– and enticing –– as before?
Demons of the Body and Mind
Title | Demons of the Body and Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Bienstock Anolik |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786457481 |
The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other as a source of grotesque horror. The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments are refigured as Other, and how they are imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, even those, such as mental illness, which were invisible. Paradoxically, the Other also becomes a pitiful figure, often evoking empathy. This exploration of illness and disability represents a strong addition to Gothic studies.