Love's madness: medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865

Abstract

1. Love's Madness 2. Love-Mad Women and the Rhetoric of Gentlemanly Medicine 3. Hyperbole and the Love-Mad Woman: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 4. Love-Mad Women and Political Insurrection in Regency Fiction 5. The Hyena's Laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre 6. The Woman in White, Great Expectations, and the Limits of Medicine Select Bibliography Index