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Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - 1825-1855 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry - 1825-1855 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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.
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