The female malady : women, madness and English culture 1830-1980 /

• Showalter, Elaine, 1941-

• Women -- Mental health services -- Great Britain -- History.

• Virago,

• 0860688690

• Originally published: Pantheon, 1985.

• Nerves and narratives a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth century British prose
• uncommercial traveller and other papers 1859 70
• Forgotten lunatics of the Great War
• George Eliots Middlemarch
• Dent uniform edition of Dickens journalism Gone astray and other papers from Household Words 1851 59
• shadows of total war Europe East Asia and the United States 1919 1939
• Family and class in a London suburb
• Shell shock Minds the dead have ravished
• reading lesson the threat of mass literacy in nineteenth century British fiction
• English Romantic poets and essayists a review of research and criticism
• early Victorian woman some aspects of her life 1837 57
• nineteenth century novel identities
• Medieval women
• war of nerves soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century
• No mans land combat & identity in World War 1
• Moulding the female body in Victorian fairy tales and sensation novels
• Dust tracks on a road an autobiography
• Dead secrets Wilkie Collins and the female gothic
• Villette Charlotte Bronte
• nineteenth century novel a critical reader
• John Fowles
• accents of persuasion Charlotte Brontes novels
• correspondent breeze essays on English romanticism
• Jane Eyre
• J R R Tolkien
• private rod marital violence sensation and the law in Victorian Britain
• George Eliot godless woman
• Language and discrimination a study of communication in multi ethnic workplaces
• Official British film propaganda during the First World War
• A tale of two kings Alfred the Great and Ethelred the unready
• Who the Dickens is Mrs Gaskell
• ends of history Victorians and the woman question
• English novel Smollett to Austen
• Sadeian woman an exercise in cultural history
• Charlotte Bronte and Victorian psychology
• Desire and domestic fiction a political history of the novel
• Home fires and foreign fields British social and military experience in the First World War
• Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The yellow wall paper and the history of its publication and reception a critical edition and documentary casebook
• Passions of the voice hysteria narrative and the figure of the speaking woman 1850 1915
• new nineteenth century feminist readings of underread Victorian fiction
• Great War in history debates and controversies 1914 to the present
• first day on the Somme 1 July 1916
• For the sake of example capital courts martial 1914 1920
• Dynamic of destruction culture and mass killing in the First World War
• Woman and the demon the life of a Victorian myth
• Poverty and compassion the moral imagination of the lateVictorians
• Great War and the twentieth century
• Victorian fiction writers publishers readers
• Fact into fiction English literature and the industrial scene 1750 1850
• Uneven developments the ideological work of gender in mid Victorian England
• emergence of Hindu nationalism in India
• Charlotte Bronte
• Human documents of the industrial revolution in Britain
• Rethinking Victorian culture
• social history of madness stories of the insane
• Loves madness medicine the novel and female insanity 1800 1865
• Hard times
• Victorian women poets an anthology
• Victorian education and the ideal of womanhood
• Repression in Victorian fiction Charlotte Bronte George Eliot and Charles Dickens
• Victorian renovations of the novel narrative annexes and the boundaries of representation
• Banishing the beast English feminism and sexual morality 1885 1914
• Thought words and creativity art and thought in Lawrence
• meaning of Shakespeare
• Charlotte Bronte style in the novel
• Cultural Shakespeare essays in the Shakespeare myth
• literature of labour two hundred years of working class writing
• Novels of the eighteen forties
• Bronte transformations the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
• Henry V
• Gothic literature
• early and mid Victorian novel
• Decadence and danger writing history and the fin de siecle
• sensation novel from The woman in white to The moonstone
• subjection of women contemporary responses to John Stuart Mill
• Blake a collection of critical essays
• First World War
• Soliciting interpretation literary theory and seventeenth century English poetry
• Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535 1860 a history presented in selected English texts
• Human documents of the Victorian golden age 1850 1875
• Charlotte Bronte the evolution of genius
• Womens fiction between the wars mothers daughters and writing
• Unstable bodies Victorian representations of sexuality and maternity
• English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
• Interpreting Blake
• Victorians and social protest a symposium
• making of Victorian sexual attitudes
• Deaths men soldiers of the Great War
• structure of modernist poetry
• woman reader 1837 1914
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American slave written by himself
• Rewriting the Victorians theory history and the politics of gender
• nineteenth century novel realisms
• Confessional subjects revelations of gender and power in Victorian literature and culture
• singular anomaly women novelists of the nineteenth century
• Facing Armageddon the First World War experience
• Charles Dickens radical moralist
• Shakespeares comic sequence
• Myths of sexuality representations of women in Victorian Britain
• Text theory space land literature and history in South Africa and Australia