Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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 Zoophagus Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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 Zoophagus Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Most Dreadful VisitationMale Madness in Victorian Fiction, pp. viiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2006