Add to ORKGIn several Victorian novels, a character becomes incapacitated—and bedridden—for a period of time due to an elusive ailment known as brain fever; these mental alterations usually occur in female characters after an unexpected event or a stress-ridden situation. However, the sources of and meanings behind these fits of brain fever are limited to generic descriptions (if the author provides any explanation at all). This apparently intentional absence of information suggests that the illnesses act as symbols, alluding to or attempting to understand relevant social issues of the time. Through an in-depth study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Anthony Trollope’s Lady Anna (1874), and Charles Dic...
Victorian inquisitiveness about sleep and dysfunctions of sleep is exemplified in novels published d...
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
In this dissertation I analyze Victorian gynecology and literature and argue that texts in both of t...
When we consider Victorian literature, it is striking to note the high number of novels that partici...
In the nineteenth century, the discussion of personal health and wellbeing became almost a national ...
This thesis argues that what it terms fever narratives figure prominently in Charles Dickens’s ficti...
This thesis attempts to prove that the diagnosing and treatment of mental illness in Victorian Anglo...
This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It...
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on July 30, 2013).The entire ...
Austens novels provide a focus on illness, in particular on the fashionable nervous disorders of thi...
In the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional char...
Representations of disease and illness pervade the seven novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlott...
This dissertation concerns the intersection between disability, genre, and female agency in Victoria...
Ill health, accident and death are themes common to all of Jane Austen's novels. Some illnesses are ...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
Victorian inquisitiveness about sleep and dysfunctions of sleep is exemplified in novels published d...
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
In this dissertation I analyze Victorian gynecology and literature and argue that texts in both of t...
When we consider Victorian literature, it is striking to note the high number of novels that partici...
In the nineteenth century, the discussion of personal health and wellbeing became almost a national ...
This thesis argues that what it terms fever narratives figure prominently in Charles Dickens’s ficti...
This thesis attempts to prove that the diagnosing and treatment of mental illness in Victorian Anglo...
This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It...
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on July 30, 2013).The entire ...
Austens novels provide a focus on illness, in particular on the fashionable nervous disorders of thi...
In the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional char...
Representations of disease and illness pervade the seven novels written by Anne, Emily, and Charlott...
This dissertation concerns the intersection between disability, genre, and female agency in Victoria...
Ill health, accident and death are themes common to all of Jane Austen's novels. Some illnesses are ...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
Victorian inquisitiveness about sleep and dysfunctions of sleep is exemplified in novels published d...
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
In this dissertation I analyze Victorian gynecology and literature and argue that texts in both of t...