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Corinne (Hrsg.) Saunders

Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Macnaughton, Jane (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4039-2199-4
  • EAN: 9781403921994
  • Produktnummer: 1717900
  • Verlag: Springer Nature
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 244 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B16.7 cm x D1.0 cm 440 g
  • Auflage: 2004
  • Gewicht: 440

Über den Autor


AL ALVAREZ Notable poet, critic and writerPAT BARKER Well-known author of The Regeneration Trilogy, amongst othersANTONIA BYATT Writer and literary critic; winner of the Booker Prize in 1990ROBIN DOWNIE Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, UKMARTYN EVANS Chair of Humanities in Medicine, University of Durham, UKDAVID FULLER Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UKALLAN INGRAM Professor of English and Head of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UKMICHAEL O'DONNELL Well-known as doctor, writer and broadcasterMICHAEL O'NEILL Professor and Chairman of English Studies, University of Durham, UKADAM PIETTE Reader in English, Glasgow University, UKROY PORTER Former Professor in the Wellcome Trust Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London (died 2002)IGNÈS SODRÉ Author and psychoanalystSTEPHEN SYKES Professor of Theology, University of Durham and Principal of St John's College, DurhamPATRICIA WAUGH Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UK

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