Publisher's Synopsis
Preface; Introduction; 1. Two Backgrounds and a Hazy Foreground; 2. A Disconcerting Overview; 3. Aesthetics, Ethics and Arabella's Mental Illness; 4. The Double Assault on Arabella's Integrity: Delusion and Reason; 5. Madness or Marranism: Masking, Secrecy and Illusion; 6. Changing Depictions of Mental Illness: 17th and 18th Century; 7.