The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction by Valerie Pedlar

The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction

Liverpool English Texts and Studies

Valerie Pedlar

192 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

challenging informative slow-paced
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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, mo...

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