Women and madness in the early Romantic novel

Injured minds, ruined lives

Description

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women’s mental and emotional afflictions. -- .
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Writer
Weiss, Deborah
Title
Women and madness in the early Romantic novel
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2024
Language
English
Pages
248
EAN
9781526175717
Binding format
Hardback

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