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Crawford, Joseph.

Inspiration and insanity in British poetry1825-1855 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inspiration and insanity in British poetryby Joseph Crawford.
Reminder of title:	1825-1855 /
Author:	Crawford, Joseph.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	vii, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Poets, EnglishMental health.19th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21671-9
ISBN:	9783030216719$q(electronic bk.)

Inspiration and insanity in British poetry1825-1855 /
Crawford, Joseph.

Inspiration and insanity in British poetry1825-1855 /[electronic resource] :by Joseph Crawford. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - vii, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - 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$q(electronic bk.)

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

849658
Poets, English
--Mental health.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR585.P85 / C739 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 821.709

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