Women and madness in the early romantic novel: injured minds, ruined lives
Auteur :
Weiss, Deborah
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526175717
Date de publication :
19 nov. 2024
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
527 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. -- .