Titlebook: Neo-Victorian Madness; Rediagnosing Ninetee Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under ex

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Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind,current culture is mentally sick, none of them investigate how mental illness depicted in literature and other media that is set in the nineteenth century differs from its portrayal in Victorian works. This volume seeks to remedy that by analysing the treatment of the Others who were once locked up

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,The Daughters of Bertha Mason: Caribbean Madwomen in Laura Fish’s , of Elizabeth and two former slave women working on her family’s plantation on Jamaica. The women suffer from two different types of madness: what might be called the madness of the metropolis and the madness of the colonies. In the case of Kaydia and Sheba, two Afro-Caribbean women, the text disput

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,The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman and ,ext is offered on how Victorians perceived puberty, menses, sexual desire, nymphomania, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause. The second half of the chapter analyses how neo-Victorian narratives in the BBC series . infuse contemporary awareness and sensitivities in contrast to Victorian ignorance of

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,Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood’s , and Its Adaptation,tive of a madwoman, that is, a narrative which undercuts a possibility of a coherent representation of the self. Her “inability to speak”—fragmentation, instability and incompleteness of her narrative—is what makes it queer; its queerness is based in its refusal to be within the doctor-listener’s/re