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This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women's mental and emotional afflictions. -- .

Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 1/19/2024
      ISBN13: 9781526175717, 978-1526175717
      ISBN10: 1526175711

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      Book Synopsis
      This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women's mental and emotional afflictions. -- .

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