Neo-Victorian Madness

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<div><p><i>Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media</i> investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were "mad." Such portraits demand a "rediagnosing" of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights. </p></div>

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<p><b>Sarah E. Maier </b>is<b> </b>Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada.</p> <p><b>Brenda Ayres</b> teaches online courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA.</p> <p>Maier and Ayres have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are <i>Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past </i>(2020), <i>Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture </i>(2019) and <i>Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century </i>(2019).</p>

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