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The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction
Pedlar, Valerie

Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In ‘The Most D…

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9781846314186
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192 p
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823.8093561 VAL m
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Middlemarch: epigraphs and mirrors
Roberts, Adam

In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a tex…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781800641600
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149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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823.8 ROB m
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History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
Mitchell, Kate

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …

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ISBN/ISSN
978023022858
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ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
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823.809358 MIT h