Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel

Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel

Injured Minds, Ruined Lives

Weiss, Deborah

Manchester University Press

11/2024

288

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9781526175717

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Introduction: Women and madness in the early-Romantic novel
1 Madness and Maria: The Wrongs of Woman and patriarchal control
2 Of Madness and monitors: Secresy; or, the Ruin on the Rock
3 Death by despair: Fatal melancholia in The Victim of Prejudice
4 Misplaced passions, erroneous associations and remorse: Madness reconsidered in Belinda
5 The impossibility of love-madness: The Father and Daughter
Coda: Wide Sargasso Sea: The erasure of love-madness and the mad woman's revenge
Bibliography
Index -- .
Patriarchy, madness, love-madness, mania, melancholia, hysteria, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, Eliza Fenwick, Amelia Opie