Academic study of the love-mad woman in 19th-century British novels and medical writing, tracing links between femininity, insanity, and narrative form.
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Academic study of the love-mad woman in 19th-century British novels and medical writing, tracing links between femininity, insanity, and narrative form.
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Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention.
At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also bri...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Central analysis of romantic love, loss, and resulting female insanity across multiple novels.
Violence & gore
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References to violence and suffering in literary depictions of madness and coercion.
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language present.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Brief historical references to non-normative sexuality including one mention of a bisexual figure.
Religious content
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Occasional references to religious contexts in 19th-century medical and literary views of madness.
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present.
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonological content present.
Political content
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Examines feminist and social-history themes around gender, medicine, and narrative.
Self-harm / suicide
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Discusses literary figures such as Ophelia and themes of suicide linked to love-madness.
Abuse & suffering
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Analysis of female suffering, coercion, and systemic mistreatment in medical and fictional accounts.
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