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'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fiction

Valerie Pedlar · 2006

77,721 words · about 5 h 27 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Valerie Pedlar
Language
English
Published
2006
Length
77,721 words · about 5 h 27 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. Introduction about 4 h 57 min
  4. Conclusion about 23 min
  5. Index about 5 min

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Front matter

‘THE MOST DREADFUL VISITATION’: MALE MADNESS IN VICTORIAN FICTION

LIVERPOOL ENGLISH TEXTS AND STUDIES, 46

‘THE MOST DREADFUL VISITATION’: MALE MADNESS IN VICTORIAN FICTION

Contents

Acknowledgements viii Introduction I t Insurrection and Imagination: Idiocy and Barnaby Rudge 27 2 Thwarted Lovers: Basiland Maud 53 3 Wrongful Confinement, Sensationalism and Hard Cash 80 4 Madness and Marriage III 5 The Zoophagus Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula 134 Conclusion 159 Bibliography 163

Index 178

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