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The Resource The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar
The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar
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The item The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- 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 lite
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Contents
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- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Insurrection and Imagination: Idiocy and Barnaby Rudge; 2: Thwarted Lovers: Basil and Maud; 3: Wrongful Confinement, Sensationalism and Hard Cash; 4: Madness and Marriage; 5: The Zoophagous Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula; Conclusion; Bibliography
- Isbn
- 9781846314186
- Label
- The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction
- Title
- The most dreadful visitation
- Title remainder
- male madness in Victorian fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Valerie Pedlar
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- 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 lite
- Additional physical form
- Also available in print form.
- Cataloging source
- MiAaPQ
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pedlar, Valerie
- Dewey number
- 823.8093561
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PN56.M45
- LC item number
- P43 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Liverpool English texts and studies
- Series volume
- 46
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Mental illness in literature
- Men in literature
- Men
- Label
- The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Insurrection and Imagination: Idiocy and Barnaby Rudge; 2: Thwarted Lovers: Basil and Maud; 3: Wrongful Confinement, Sensationalism and Hard Cash; 4: Madness and Marriage; 5: The Zoophagous Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula; Conclusion; Bibliography
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Open Access
- Isbn
- 9781846314186
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
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- Specific material designation
- remote
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- (EBL)380720
- (OCoLC)476209839
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- System details
- Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web
- Label
- The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction, Valerie Pedlar
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Insurrection and Imagination: Idiocy and Barnaby Rudge; 2: Thwarted Lovers: Basil and Maud; 3: Wrongful Confinement, Sensationalism and Hard Cash; 4: Madness and Marriage; 5: The Zoophagous Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula; Conclusion; Bibliography
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Open Access
- Isbn
- 9781846314186
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (EBL)380720
- (OCoLC)476209839
- (SSID)ssj0000071142
- (PQKBManifestationID)11110034
- (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071142
- (PQKBWorkID)10070515
- (PQKB)11640789
- (StDuBDS)EDZ0000127426
- (MiAaPQ)EBC380720
- (UkCbUP)CR9781781387733
- (EXLCZ)991000000000541223
- System details
- Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web
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