Women and madness in the early Romantic novel : injured minds, ruined lives / Deborah Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Deborah R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill women in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Injured minds, ruined lives

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Deborah Weiss is Professor of English at the University of Alabama

Summary:

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women's mental and emotional afflictions.

Contents:

Introduction: women and madness in the early Romantic novel

Madness and Maria: The Wrongs of Woman and patriarchal control

Of madness and monitors: Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock

Death by despair: fatal melancholia in The Victim of Prejudice

Misplaced passions, erroneous associations, and remorse: madness reconsidered in Belinda

The impossibility of love-madness: The Father and Daughter

Coda: Wide Sargasso Sea

the erasure of love-madness and the mad woman's revenge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and online resource, viewed 7 July 2025.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526175700

1526175703

9781526175724

152617572X

OCLC:

1472988995