Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

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."

Citation

Saunders, C., & Macnaughton, J. (Eds.). (2005). Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Keywords: Psychopathology, Psychology, Mental illness, Psychoanalysis, Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, Pat Barker, Michael O'Donnell, A. S Byatt.
• Publisher URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403921994