Title Monomania : the flight from everyday life in literature and art / Marina van Zuylen

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) Contents Pierre Janet : the phobia of everyday life -- Flaubert : the revenge of art on life -- The cult of the unreal : Nodier and romantic monomania -- Between Kant and Hegel : Baudelaire's dialogue with obsession -- Middlemarch : abstraction and empathy -- Musings on hypochondria : Thomas Mann's magic thermometer -- Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé : the scholarly malady -- The cure in the disease : Nina Bouraoui's melancholic imperative -- Voyeuristic monomania : Sophie Calle's rituals Summary 'Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mental illness in literature. Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature. European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Compulsive Behavior. European literature Mental illness in literature Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature Literatur Psychose Motiv Obsessieve-compulsieve stoornis. Letterkunde. Kunst. Europa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501717451 1501717456

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