Creating Romantic Obsession Scorpions in the Mind
Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s anxieties. Using a number of liter...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3991687x*spi |
| Sumario: | Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 zThe Tell Tale Hearty) and some not (like Charlotte Dacre’s 1811 The Passions and Charles Brockden Brown’s 1787 Edgar Huntly), the book looks at zvigiliay, an overly intense curiosity, zintellectual monomaniay, an obsession with study, znymphomaniay and zerotomaniay, gendered forms of desire, zrevolutianay, an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and zideality,y an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today. . |
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| Descripción Física: | XIII, 206 p. : 8 il., 2 il. col |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783030139889 |
