{"product_id":"victorian-gaslighting-genealogy-of-an-injustice-9798855805918","title":"Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReads \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003egaslighting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictorian Gaslighting\u003c\/i\u003e is the first literary-cultural history of gaslighting, a term derived from the haunting neo-Victorian play \u003ci\u003eGas Light\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), which tells the story of a sadistic husband who manipulates his wife into believing she's losing her mind. The collection traces the type of emotional abuse we find in the various stage and screen versions of the play back to its nineteenth-century British roots. Gaslighting emerged during an era when the idea of madness was debated, misused, policed, and medicalized like never before-and when the interlocking institutions of patriarchy, slavery, and imperialism sought to convince women, racialized others, and colonized subjects that their own perceptions were not to be trusted. More than anything, as the volume's wide-ranging analyses of both canonical and little-known Victorian texts demonstrate, gaslighting depends on the power to propagate a false narrative. This study clarifies how gaslighting works, then and now, by taking a deep dive into the distinctly Victorian horror story at the heart of this persistent form of injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiana Bellonby\u003c\/b\u003e is a Philadelphia-based writer who received her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCriticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Microgenre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and other venues. \u003cb\u003eNora Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBetter Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGone Girls, 1684-1901: Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e Tara MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Man, Masculinity, and Marriage in the Victorian Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52101667422482,"sku":"9798855805918","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_92e18be8-8f98-40bb-a844-2dfe009e32cf.jpg?v=1773136126","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/victorian-gaslighting-genealogy-of-an-injustice-9798855805918","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}