Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture
Corinne Saunders editor Jane Macnaughton editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:12th Nov '04
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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.
ISBN: 9781403921994
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 554g
244 pages
2004 ed.