Madness and creativity in literature and culture / edited by Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

xiv, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / J.Macnaughton & C.Saunders -- READING MADNESS: LITERATURE IN MEDICINE -- Madness and Creativity: Communication and Excommunication / R.Porter -- Doctors as Performance Artists / M.O'Donnell -- Ambiguity in Attitudes to Madness and Creativity / R.Downie -- MADNESS IN LITERATURE--MEDIEVAL TO MODERN -- 'The Thoughtful Maladie': Madness and Vision in Medieval Writing / C.Saunders -- 'Inexpressibly Dreadful': Depression, Confession and Language in 18th Century Britain / A.Ingram -- Wonders in the Deep: Cowper, Melancholy and Religion / S.Sykes -- 'Mad as a Refuge from Unbelief': William Blake and the Sanity of Dissidence / D.Fuller -- 'Why then Ile Fit You': Representations of Madness in Some Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Poems / M.O'Neill -- Madness, Medicine and Creativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain / M.Evans -- WRITING MADNESS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE -- Creative Writers and Psychopathology: the Cultural Consolations of 'The Wound and the Bow' / Thesis: P.Waugh -- The Myth of the Artist / A.Alvarez -- 'Writing Madness' (Dialogue) / A.Byatt & I.Sodre -- Breaking Down or Breaking Out? (Dialogue) / P.Barker & A.Piette.