Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds

ISBN-13: 9781032058634 / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

Mathilde Vialard

Opis

Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. 

Spis treści

Introduction

Sensation, Home, and Health

Chapter One

‘And we will pass hours and hours every day with these four friendly walls round us’:

Domesticated Idleness in Sensation Novels  

Chapter Two

‘I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man’:

Nervous Disorders and Domestic Life          

Chapter Three

‘Our quiet life here maddens me; I can bear it no longer; I must go’:

Public Industriousness and Obsession          

Chapter Four

‘Mad to-day and sane to-morrow, mad yesterday and sane to-day’:

Partial Insanity or Deviant Behaviours        

Chapter Five

‘If this state of depression continues, very distressing mental consequences may follow’:

Melancholy Extremes in Sensation Novels    

Conclusion

           Sensational Excesses  

O autorze

Mathilde Vialard is a Medical English teacher at the Université de Dijon in France where she teaches various language courses as well as ‘Health in Literature’ modules. She was awarded a PhD in Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham in 2023 and her research now focuses on broadening the Health Humanities community in French Universities by using literature to help healthcare professionals in training to engage with their patients.