TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pedlar, Valerie
AB  - Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In ‘The Most Dreadful Visitation’, Valerie Pedlar redresses the balance. This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson’s Maud, Wilkie Collins’s Basil and Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings – and fears – of mental degeneracy.
DO  - 10.5949/upo9781846314186
ID  - OAPEN ID: 398847
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1233021550
KW  - victoriaans
KW  - male
KW  - madness
KW  - mannen
KW  - victorian
KW  - gekte
KW  - Charles Dickens
KW  - Dracula
KW  - Insanity
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Renfield
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7c5cdf2f-7f3e-4c0d-b7c0-a142dadadda9/398847.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34588
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2006
SN  - 9781846314186
TI  - 'The Most Dreadful Visitation': Male Madness in Victorian Fictionnull
ER  - 
