Neo-Victorian madness [electronic resource] : rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century mental illness in literature and other media / Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, editors.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind
- Bibliography
- 2 "I Am Not an Angel": Madness and Addiction in Neo-Victorian Appropriations of Jane Eyre
- Bibliography
- 3 "We Should Go Mad": The Madwoman and Her Nurse
- Bibliography
- 4 The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish's Strange Music
- To Be Guilty Is to Be Mad-Elizabeth
- Like Mother Like Daughter-Kaydia
- Not Your Negro-Sheba
- Bibliography.
- 5 "A Necessary Madness": PTSD in Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club Novels
- Book 1: The Proposal (2012)
- Books 2 and 3: The Suitor (2013b) and The Arrangement (2013a)
- Books 4 and 5: Escape (2014a) and Only Enchanting (2014b)
- Book 6: Only a Promise (2015a)
- Book 7: Only a Kiss (2015b)
- Book 8: Only Beloved (2016)
- Bibliography
- 6 Unreliable Neo-Victorian Narrators, "Unwomen," and Femmes Fatales: Nell Leyshon's The Colour of Milk and Jane Harris' Gillespie and I
- Bibliography.
- 7 "Dear Holy Sister": Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White
- Houses in Order and "Playing with Dolls": The Non-maturation of Agnes Rackham
- Dear Holy Sister: Divine Eroticism and Shared Identities
- Retracing the Narratives of Madness: The Journals of Agnes Rackham
- The Woman in White and the Singularity of Vision
- Bibliography
- 8 The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman and Ripper Street
- Puberty and Menarche
- Sexual Desire and Nymphomania
- Childbirth, Puerperal and Lactational Insanity.
- Menopause and Old Maids
- Mad Women
- Neo-Victorian Revisions of Female Sexuality
- Sexual Desire, Nymphomania and Slumming
- Questionable Pregnancy and Deathly Childbirth
- Puberty and/as Trauma for Girlchildren
- Lost/Found Children and Postpartum Despair
- Threats, Menopause, Grief and Old Maids
- Woman's Unmentionable Madness(es)
- Bibliography
- 9 Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Its Adaptation
- Queerness as Non-normativity and the Madwoman
- Grace Marks: A Victorian Hysteric
- A Madwoman's Queer Identity and Narrative.
- Conclusion: Being Queered by the Madwoman
- Bibliography
- 10 Old Monsters, Old Curses: The New Hysterical Woman and Penny Dreadful
- An Old Monster
- Diagnosing Hysteria
- Fragile Male Superegos
- A New Hysterical Woman
- An Old Curse
- Bibliography
- 11 The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC's Sherlock
- Bibliography
- 12 Gendered (De)Illusions: Imaginative Madness in Neo-Victorian Childhood Trauma Narratives
- Bibliography
- Index.