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oapen-20.500.12657-345882022-04-26T11:21:47Z 'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fiction Pedlar, Valerie victoriaans male madness mannen victorian gekte Charles Dickens Dracula Insanity Masculinity Renfield bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FF Crime & mystery::FFH Historical mysteries bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MM Other branches of medicine::MMJ Clinical psychology 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. In ‘The Most Dreadful Visitation’, Valerie Pedlar redresses the balance. 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. 2011-11-04 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:20:43Z 2020-04-01T15:20:43Z 2006 book 398847 OCN: 1233021550 9781846314186 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34588 eng Liverpool English Texts and Studies application/pdf n/a 398847.pdf http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11&AS1=%27The+Most+Dreadful+Visitation%27 Liverpool University Press 10.5949/upo9781846314186 10.5949/upo9781846314186 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc 780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4 9781846314186 OAPEN-UK 46 192 Liverpool OAPEN-UK open access
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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. In ‘The Most Dreadful Visitation’, Valerie Pedlar redresses the balance. 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.
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