Madness and Blake's Myth
Title | Madness and Blake's Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Youngquist |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0271039612 |
Madness & Blake's Myth
Title | Madness & Blake's Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Youngquist |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Literature and mental illness |
ISBN |
Madness and Blake's Myth
Title | Madness and Blake's Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bruce Youngquist |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Authors, English |
ISBN |
Dionysus in Literature
Title | Dionysus in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Branimir M. Rieger |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Pres |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0299278735 |
In this anthology, outstanding authorities present their assessments of literary madness in a variety of topics and approaches. The entire collection of essays presents intriguing aspects of the Dionysian element in literature.
Madness and the Romantic Poet
Title | Madness and the Romantic Poet PDF eBook |
Author | James Whitehead |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191053430 |
Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature, 1744-1845
Title | Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature, 1744-1845 PDF eBook |
Author | Natali, Ilaria |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2016-03-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1621967093 |
The stylistic and cultural discourse concerning the narratives of mental disorder is the main focus of Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845. This collection offers new insights into the representation of madness in British literature between two landmark dates for the social, philosophical and medical history of mental deviance: 1744 and 1845. In 1744, the Vagrancy Act first mentions 'lunatics' as a specific category, which is itself a social 'symptom' of an emerging need for isolation and confinement of the insane. A more sophisticated and attentive care of the 'fool' is testified only by the 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act, which established specific processes safeguarding against the wrongful detention of patients in public and private facilities. In stressing for the first time the momentous change the notion of madness underwent between these years, this book provides a fresh and absolutely unique perspective on some of the major works connected with mental disorder. The chronological boundaries also provide the collection with a definite and unifying frame, which comprises social, cultural, legal and medical aspects of madness as an historical phenomenon. It is within this frame that the eight essays composing the body of the book discuss how madness is recounted, or even experienced, by authors such as Christopher Smart and William Cowper, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thomas Perceval, Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Eliza Haywood, and Alfred Tennyson. Symptoms of Disorder draws a wide-ranging map of different representations of madness and their historic functioning between the 18th and 19th centuries. The organizational principle of this collection is a double perspective, which allows to suitably articulate the characterizations of insanity into themes and genres. Reflecting the two main ways in which literary madness can be employed as a critical device in literature, the chapters are grouped into theme-oriented and writer-oriented analyses. Other collections dealing with literature and madness have already coped, to a certain degree, with works that represent insane characters and authors who adopt 'deviant' voices as a fictional or rhetoric expedient. Fewer studies of the same kind, instead, have offered a more comprehensive picture by also looking at the alleged insanity of the writer, and at those linguistic, stylistic and semantic elements which at some stage were commonly believed to be an expression of insanity. This is one of the first studies which addresses the representation of madness from both these intertwined perspectives. See www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979251.cfm for more information.
Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth
Title | Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Leopold Damrosch Jr. |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400853737 |
In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.