Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-century Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0312174950
- ISBN-13
- 9780312174958
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 202
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Author
- Chris Wiesenthal
Description
Wiesenthal (English, U. of Alberta, Edmonton) uses historical, psychoanalytic, and semiotic perspectives to analyze depictions of mental disorder in 19th-century fiction and the ways in which readers interpret these depictions. She addresses the relation between madness and language in the work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Jane Austen; the role of particular disorders in the work of Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James; and the relation between Moby-Dick and Lacan's concept of paranoiac knowledge. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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