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The sense and sensibility of madness : disrupting normalcy in literature and the arts /

This volume explores the intriguing ontological ambiguities of madness in literature and the arts. Despite its association with a diseased/abnormal mind, there can be much sense and sensibility in madness. Daring to break free from the dictates of normalcy, madwomen and madmen disrupt the status quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klambauer, Anna (Editor ), Bauschke, Doreen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 111.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Doreen Bauschke and Anna Klambauer
  • Mad Female Doubles in Attics and Drawing Rooms
  • Subversive Madness: Madwomen, Doubles, and Mad Resistance in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea / Anna Klambauer
  • Double the Sensation: Mad Doubles in the Sensation Fiction of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Rachel A. Sims
  • In a Mad World Is Madness Divinest Sense?
  • Delivering Humanity from Normalcy: Madness in Susan Glaspell's The Verge as Only Chance for Sanity / Doreen Bauschke
  • Mad Prophets in a Mad World: William Blake's Apocalyptic Vision and the Revival of British Millenarianism / Ruxanda Topor
  • The Blessed 'Mad Ones' in Howl and On the Road / Terri Jane Dow
  • Beyond Convention: Mad Artists and Mad Artistic Expressions
  • Breaking Mad: From Artaud to Ginsberg / Peter Gunn
  • Art Brut: The Sensibility of Outsiders in the Era of Late Capitalism / Isil Ezgi Celik
  • Post-Madwoman Writing and The Book of Ambiguity / Teresa Bell.