Title Retreat into the mind : Victorian poetry and the rise of psychiatry / by Ekbert Faas

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) Contents 1. Dramatic or psychological monologue?: The dramatic monologue and Victorian criticism -- The dramatic monologue and its precedents -- Psychological poetry and mental science -- 2. The new mental science: Introspective psychology -- Mesmerism -- Psychological medicine -- 3. The psychological school of poetry: beginnings: The evolution of the new genre -- Critics and poets vis-a-vis mental scientists -- The age of introspection -- 4. The psychological school of poetry: origins: Robert Browning -- Alfred Tennyson -- From introspection to psycho-analysis -- 5. Precedents I: the romantic "science of feelings": Self-analysis versus spontaneity -- Unconscious creativity and its limits -- Emotions recollected in tranquillity -- Simulated spontaneity and self-dramatization -- Toward the dramatic monologue -- 6. Precedents II: Shakespeare: The linguistic and prosodic model -- Shakespeare and the alienists -- Shakespeare's psychology and pre-romantic criticism -- 7. Dead end: Matthew Arnold: The search for the buried self -- The greater romantic lyric In extremis -- Matthew Arnold and psychology -- Empedocles on Etna and spasmodic drama -- Maud, or the way out of the impasse -- 8. The psychological school of poetry: patterns: Opening, setting, and listener -- Situation, action, and conclusion -- Dramatic narrative and psychological revivification -- 9. The psychological school of poetry: contents: Relativist versus traditional morality -- The psychology of murder and suicide -- The psychology of history -- From reverie to insanity -- From case history to surrealistic effusion -- 10. Swinburne, or the psychopathology of poetic creation: Dramatizations of the perverse -- Insane artists and alienist biographers -- A poetics of madness and revolt -- Epilogue: Toward a poète maudit aesthetic Analysis English poetry History, 1837-1901 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-297) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2012 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain Psychology and literature -- History -- 19th century Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Dramatic monologues -- History and criticism Poetry -- Psychological aspects Psychology in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature -- History -- 19th century Poetry -- history Psychiatry -- history POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Dramatic monologues English poetry Poetry -- Psychological aspects Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and literature Psychology and literature Psychology in literature Lyrik Psychiatrie Psychologie Dramatic monologue Psychoanalyse Gedichten. Psychologie. Psychoanalyse. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400861675 1400861675 9780691601588 0691601585

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