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Keywords
- communication
- creativity
- culture
- history of medicine
- poetry
- psychoanalysis
- USA
About this book
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.
About the authors
AL ALVAREZ Notable poet, critic and writer
PAT BARKER Well-known author of The Regeneration Trilogy, amongst others
ANTONIA BYATT Writer and literary critic; winner of the Booker Prize in 1990
ROBIN DOWNIE Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, UK
MARTYN EVANS Chair of Humanities in Medicine, University of Durham, UK
DAVID FULLER Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UK
ALLAN INGRAM Professor of English and Head of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
MICHAEL O'DONNELL Well-known as doctor, writer and broadcaster
MICHAEL O'NEILL Professor and Chairman of English Studies, University of Durham, UK
ADAM PIETTE Reader in English, Glasgow University, UK
ROY PORTER Former Professor in the Wellcome Trust Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London (died 2002)
IGNÈS SODRÉ Author and psychoanalyst
STEPHEN SYKES Professor of Theology, University of Durham and Principal of St John's College, Durham
PATRICIA WAUGH Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture
Editors: Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-2199-4Published: 12 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-72646-2Published: 12 November 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 244