Symptoms of disorder : reading madness in British literature, 1744-1845 /
This book 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...
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ilaria Natali and Annalisa Volpone
- Part I: Experiencing madness. Perceptions of madness in the works of Christopher Smart and William Cowper / Ilaria Natali
- William Blake's last prophetic books and contemporary brain science / Annalisa Volpone
- The poetic image as cognitive hypotyposis in Samuel Coleridge / Mark Clark
- Perceval's narrative / Suzanne Rosenthal Shumway
- Part II: Writing about madness. Madness and queer longing in Clarissa / Julie Beaulieu
- Madness as freedom and subversion in eighteenth-century female quixotism / Miriam Borham-Puyal
- Masculine prerogative as mental disease in the later works of Eliza Haywood / Karol Cooper
- Tennyson's Maud / Ann M. Mazur.