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Love's Madness
Helen Small
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Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
出版Clarendon Press, 1996
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / WomenSelf-Help / Personal Growth / GeneralSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN01981849139780198184911
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Pk3hOMbybJoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. Love's Madness traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association.