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Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModern19th CenturyFictionEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

1997Book

Author(s)Chris Wiesenthal

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780333634660

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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