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Madness and the Romantic Poet A Critical History 1st Edition by James Whitehead ISBN 0191081892 9780191081897

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Author(s): James Whitehead

ISBN(s): 9780198733706, 0198733704

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 5.68 MB

Year: 2017

Language: English

SKU: EB-6638908 Category: Poetry - American Poetry Tag: James Whitehead

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ISBN 10: 0191081892
ISBN 13: 978-0191081897
Author: James Whitehead

Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder – ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the ‘Romantic mad poet’ in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally – again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century.

Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

Madness and the Romantic Poet A Critical History 1st Table of contents:

1. ‘A Precarious Gift’: Classical Traditions and Their Romantic Reception

2. ‘On the Giddy Brink’: Eighteenth-Century Prospects

3. Alienism: Mad-Doctoring and the Mad Poet

Theoretical and Therapeutic Advances

Curious Cases of Poetry

4. Balaam and Bedlam: Romantic Reviewers and the Rhetoric of Insanity

5. Cases of Poetry: Romantic Biographers and the Origins of Psychobiography

Shelley’s Eccentricities

Gilchrist’s Blake and Martin’s Clare

6. Creativity, Genius, and Madness: A Scientific Debate and its Romantic Origins

Romantic Genius, Insanity, and Degeneration

7. Madness Writing Poetry/Poetry Writing Madness

William Blake

Wordsworth and Coleridge

Charles Lamb and John Keats

Byron and Shelley

John Clare and After

8. Conclusion: Madness, Modernity, and Romanticism

Notes

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