Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds: Mental Health in Victorian Literature (Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities)

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Introduction: Sensation, Home, and Health
	Health Humanities: Literature’s Influence On Understandings of Health and Well-Being
	Sensation Fiction and the Medical Context
	Mental Health and Home in Sensation Novels
	General Outline
	Notes
1 ‘And We Will Pass Hours and Hours Every Day With These Four Friendly Walls Round Us’: Domesticated Idleness in Sensation Novels
	Home, a Shelter Against All Injury, Terror, and Doubt?
	Home, a Shelter Against Divisions?
	Sensational Idleness
	A Gendered Perception of Idleness
	Notes
2 ‘I Am Nothing But a Bundle of Nerves Dressed Up to Look Like a Man’: Nervous Disorders and Domestic Life
	Purchasing the ‘Luxury of Illness’
	One Who Has No Faith in Himself
	The Lesions of the Imagination
	The Narration of Their Own Sufferings
	Notes
3 ‘Our Quiet Life Here Maddens Me; I Can Bear It No Longer; I Must Go’: Public Industriousness and Obsession
	The Experience of Modernity
	The Promise of Property
	Domestic Apathy and Public Activity
	Acting in One’s Own Character
	Notes
4 ‘Mad To-Day and Sane To-Morrow, Mad Yesterday and Sane To-Day’: Partial Insanity Or Deviant Behaviours
	A Break in an Otherwise Sane Mind
	A Disease of the Reason Or the Emotions
	The Hand That Is Stronger Than Them
	Motives and Responsibility
	Notes
5 ‘If this State of Depression Continues, Very Distressing Mental Consequences May Follow’: Melancholy Extremes in Sensation Novels
	Fits of Melancholia
	Near-Fatal Mischief
	Notes
Conclusion: Sensational Excesses
	Notes
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