Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Dramatic or psychological monologue?: The dramatic monologue and Victorian criticism
  • The dramatic monologue and its precedents
  • Psychological poetry and mental science
  • 2. The new mental science: Introspective psychology
  • Mesmerism
  • Psychological medicine
  • 3. The psychological school of poetry: beginnings: The evolution of the new genre
  • Critics and poets vis-a-vis mental scientists
  • The age of introspection
  • 4. The psychological school of poetry: origins: Robert Browning
  • Alfred Tennyson
  • From introspection to psycho-analysis
  • 5. Precedents I: the romantic "science of feelings": Self-analysis versus spontaneity
  • Unconscious creativity and its limits
  • Emotions recollected in tranquillity
  • Simulated spontaneity and self-dramatization
  • Toward the dramatic monologue
  • 6. Precedents II: Shakespeare: The linguistic and prosodic model
  • Shakespeare and the alienists
  • Shakespeare's psychology and pre-romantic criticism
  • 7. Dead end: Matthew Arnold: The search for the buried self
  • The greater romantic lyric In extremis
  • Matthew Arnold and psychology
  • Empedocles on Etna and spasmodic drama
  • Maud, or the way out of the impasse
  • 8. The psychological school of poetry: patterns: Opening, setting, and listener
  • Situation, action, and conclusion
  • Dramatic narrative and psychological revivification
  • 9. The psychological school of poetry: contents: Relativist versus traditional morality
  • The psychology of murder and suicide
  • The psychology of history
  • From reverie to insanity
  • From case history to surrealistic effusion
  • 10. Swinburne, or the psychopathology of poetic creation: Dramatizations of the perverse
  • Insane artists and alienist biographers
  • A poetics of madness and revolt
  • Epilogue: Toward a poete maudit aesthetic.