Retreat into the Mind : Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry /
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1988.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


