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Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture
. Ed(S): Macnaughton, Jane; Saunders, Corinne
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Paperback. Editor(s): Macnaughton, Jane; Saunders, Corinne. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; JFC; JMS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may inspire creativity. The volume also illuminates the history of medicine, demonstrating the shifts and continuities in clinical understandings of and social attitudes to mental illness from the Middle Ages through to the 'enlightened' notions of the Eighteenth Century to the development of psychoanalysis. The volume includes original contributions from well-known writers and specialists, such as the late Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, ... Read more
This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may inspire creativity. The volume also illuminates the history of medicine, demonstrating the shifts and continuities in clinical understandings of and social attitudes to mental illness from the Middle Ages through to the 'enlightened' notions of the Eighteenth Century to the development of psychoanalysis. The volume includes original contributions from well-known writers and specialists, such as the late Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349726462
SKU
V9781349726462
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About . Ed(S): Macnaughton, Jane; Saunders, Corinne
AL ALVAREZ Notable poet, critic and writer PAT BARKER Well-known author of The Regeneration Trilogy, amongst others ANTONIA BYATT Writer and literary critic; winner of the Booker Prize in 1990 ROBIN DOWNIE Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, UK MARTYN EVANS Chair of Humanities in Medicine, University of Durham, UK DAVID FULLER Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, ... Read more
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