Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 1st ed. Edition Sarah E. Maier

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030465810
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030465810
• Author(s): Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind
2. “I Am Not an Angel”: Madness and Addiction in Neo-Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre
3. “We Should Go Mad”: The Madwoman and Her Nurse
4. The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish’s Strange Music
5. “A Necessary Madness”: PTSD in Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club Novels
6. Unreliable Neo-Victorian Narrators, “Unwomen,” and Femmes Fatales: Nell Leyshon’s The Colour of Milk and Jane Harris’ Gillespie and I
7. “Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White
8. The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman and Ripper Street
9. Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Its Adaptation
10. Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful
11. The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC’s Sherlock
12. Gendered (De)Illusions: Imaginative Madness in Neo-Victorian Childhood Trauma Narratives

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