Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

Paperback • 2004 • English • 1. edition

Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

By Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton

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About the book

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 Eig...Show more

Literary essays

Literary studies: general

Social, group or collective psychology

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ISBN

9781349726462

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

Format

Paperback

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