Macnaughton, J. and Saunders, C. (2005) 'Madness and creativity in literature and culture.', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "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."
Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | Psychopathology, Psychology, Mental illness, Psychoanalysis, Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, Pat Barker, Michael O'Donnell, A. S Byatt. |
Full text: | Full text not available from this repository. |
Publisher Web site: | http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403921994 |
Date accepted: | No date available |
Date deposited: | No date available |
Date of first online publication: | March 2005 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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