13
0
0
0
0
Inspiration and insanity in British poetry : 1825-1855
- 作者: Crawford, Joseph, author.
- 其他作者:
- 其他題名:
- Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine.
- 出版: Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名: Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
- 主題: Poets, English--19th century--Mental health. , Genius and mental illness. , English poetry--19th century--History and criticism. , Mesmerism in literature. , Nineteenth-Century Literature. , Poetry and Poetics. , History of Science. , Philosophy of Mind. , Cognitive Psychology.
- ISBN: 9783030216719 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030216702 (paper)
- FIND@SFXID: CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: 1. Introduction -- 2. 'He was not one of ye': poetry and mental peculiarity, 1825-36 -- 3. 'Ah! let me not be fool'd': delusion and inspiration in the poems of Browning and Tennyson, 1832-40 -- 4. Sir William's last stand: poetry and insanity in England, 1837-42 -- 5. Seeing Things: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Romantic Poetry, 1836-55 -- 6. 'The Madness': inspiration and insanity in Spasmodic poetry, 1851-55 -- 7. Epilogue: 'It is strange.'.
- 摘要註: This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical discourses of the period, it investigates the ways in which Britain's post-Romantic poets understood their own poetic vocations within a cultural context that insistently linked poetic talent with illness and insanity. Joseph Crawford examines the popularity of mesmerism among the writers of the era, as an alternative system of medicine that provided a more sympathetic account of the nature of poetic genius, and investigates the persistent tension, found throughout the literary and medical writings of the period, between the Romantic ideal of the poet as a transcendent visionary genius and the 'medico-psychological' conception of poets as mere case studies in abnormal neurological development.
-
讀者標籤:
- 系統號: 005460717 | 機讀編目格式