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Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry = 1825–1855 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry/ by Joseph Crawford.
Reminder of title:	1825–1855 /
Author:	Crawford, Joseph.
Description:	VII, 248 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—19th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21671-9
ISBN:	9783030216719

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry = 1825–1855 /
Crawford, Joseph.

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry1825–1855 /[electronic resource] :by Joseph Crawford. - 1st ed. 2019. - VII, 248 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6435. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

1. Introduction -- 2. ‘He was not one of ye’: poetry and mental peculiarity, 1825-36 -- 3. 'Ah! let me not be fool'd': delusion and inspiration in the poems of Browning and Tennyson, 1832-40 -- 4. Sir William's last stand: poetry and insanity in England, 1837-42 -- 5. Seeing Things: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Romantic Poetry, 1836-55 -- 6. 'The Madness': inspiration and insanity in Spasmodic poetry, 1851-55 -- 7. Epilogue: ‘It is strange.’.

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.

ISBN: 9783030216719

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-21671-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253622
Literature, Modern—19th century.

LC Class. No.: PN760.5-769

Dewey Class. No.: 809.034

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