Madness and creativity in literature and culture

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Author:

Saunders, Corrine, 1963-

ISBN:

9781403921994

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Introduction / Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton -- 1. Madness and creativity : communication and excommunication / Roy Porter -- 2. Doctors as performance artists / Michael O'Donnell -- 3. Madness in literature : device and understanding / Robin Downie -- 4. 'The thoghtful maladie' : madness and vision in medieval writing / Corinne Saunders -- 5. 'Inexpressibly dreadful' : depression, confession and language in eighteenth-century Britain / Allan Ingram -- 6. Wonders in the deep : Cowper, melancholy and religion / Stephen Sykes -- 7. 'Mad as a refuge from unbelief' : Blake and the sanity of dissidence / David Fuller -- 8. 'Why then Ile fit you' : poetry and madness from Wordsworth to Berryman / Michael O'Neill -- 9. Madness, medicine and creativity in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain / Martyn Evans -- 10. Creative writers and psychopathology : the cultural consolations of 'the wound and the bow' thesis / Patricia Waugh -- 11. The myth of the artist / Al Alvarez.

12. On writing madness / A. S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre -- 13. Breaking down or breaking out? / Pat Barker and Adam Piette.

Subject Term:

English literature -- History and criticism.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Mentally ill, Writings of the -- History and criticism.

Authorship -- Psychological aspects.

Literature -- Psychological aspects.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Authors, English -- Psychology.

Literature and mental illness.

Mental illness in literature.

Mentally ill in literature.

Creative ability.

Added Author:

Saunders, Corrine, 1963-

Macnaughton, Jane.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol052/2004053147.html

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Summary

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, Pat Barker, Michael O'Donnell and A. S Byatt.