| 书目名称 | Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry |
| 副标题 | 1825–1855 |
| 编辑 | Joseph Crawford |
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| 概述 | Bridges the historical gap between studies of Romantic poetry and madness.Considers a varied group of writers to offer an inclusive portrait of the period’s attitudes toward poetic inspiration and ins |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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| 描述 | .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.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | madness studies; Romantic poetry; Victorian poetry; cognitive literary studies; literature and science; h |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21671-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-21673-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-21671-9Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
| issn_series | 2634-6435 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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