Titlebook: Neo-Victorian Madness; Rediagnosing Ninetee Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under ex

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,The Unmentionable Madness of Being a Woman?and ,oth the private and public spheres. Neo-Victorian narratives expose that agenda, rebel against it, and give voice to what really was behind all that insanity experienced by our Victorian mothers and sisters.

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,The Glamorisation of Mental Illness in BBC’s ,llnesses from within the receptive space of their televisual enclosure. In so doing they help to perpetuate a therapeutic culture that blurs the porous boundaries between fictional characters and the psychiatric disorders they are allowed to misrepresent.

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Book 2020levision 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 re

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Introduction: Neo-Victorian Maladies of the Mind,n narratives, informed by twenty-first century knowledge and awareness of psychology. This study reveals that the ways Victorians perceived “maladies of the mind” tells us more about political agenda, gender biases, hegemonic control, social normalisation and cultural history than it does about mental illness.

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,Queering the Madwoman: A Mad/Queer Narrative in Margaret Atwood’s , and Its Adaptation,hapter also discusses the television adaptation of Atwood’s novel to examine alternative techniques used in the adaptive medium to express the instabilities and the incoherence of the self, and to diagnose Grace Marks of the television show as a (queer) madwoman.