Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

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 late Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, Pat Barker, Michael O'Donnell and A. S Byatt.

Author: Corinne Saunders
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/12/2004
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.58w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781403921994
2004 Edition