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Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals
Since G. S. Rousseau proposed the link between nerve theory and the literature of sentiment in his groundbreaking article from 1976, “Nerves, Spirits, and Fibres: Towards Defining the Origins of Sensibility,” a.....
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John Ferriar’s Psychology, James Hogg’s Justified Sinner, and the Gay Science of Horror Writing
Such recent works as Frederick Burwick’s Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, Jennifer Ford’s Coleridge on Dreaming: Romanticism, Dreams and the Medical Imagination, David Vallins’s Coleridge and the Psyc...
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Introduction
In his chapter for Northrop Frye’s Romanticism Reconsidered, published nearly fifty years ago, Lionel Trilling stresses the centrality of pleasure to definitions of Romantic aesthetics, beginning with Wordsworth’...
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Reconstructing the Classical Model: Pope’s Homer and Its Influence
Pope’s Homer, and especially his Iliad, was the foundation stone of his poetic reputation and, as is well known, of both his personal financial security and of the degree of independence he was thereafter able to...
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The Madness of a Multitude’: Insanity, People and Prose
‘Cowper came to me’, wrote William Blake in around 1819, nearly twenty years after the earlier poet’s death,
and said “O that I were insane always. I will never rest. Can you not make me truly insan...
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A Gendered Affliction: Women, Writing, Madness
In the eighteenth century, the realm of madness was a locus of intensity in terms of the perception of women. Characteristics that were attributed to women multiplied in degree when madness was on the horizon....
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Madness Itself: the Real Story
The search for ‘madness itself’, for ‘really’ knowing what madness is, or was, or will be, for the ‘truly insane’, in language, in appearance, in art, in behaviour, or for what I refer to earlier as ‘the whole...
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Speaking It Like a Horse: Gulliver’s Travels and the Contexts of Insanity
The history of insanity is full of dizzying paradoxes. Here, for example, is the nineteenth-century madhouse proprietor Thomas Bakewell, writing in 1815: ‘Inever sit at table’, he observes, ‘without a number o...
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‘Th’ Unbalanc’d Mind’: Poetry, Satire and the Assimilation of Madness
In reconstructing Homer’s Achilles, Pope not only wrote his own way out of a tricky moral dilemma, one that had the capacity to unsteady an entire neoclassical culture. He also created a model in which the men...
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Acting the Part of a Madman: Insanity and the Stage
In the sixth book of Tom Jones, Squire Western, being suddenly made aware of the true relationship between Tom and his daughter Sophia, and realising that he has himself just sent Tom for a private interview with...
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‘The Image of Our Mind’: Seeing and Being Seen
Thus we prattled away our time till we came in sight of a noble pile of building, which diverted us from our former discourse, and gave my friend the occasion of asking me my thoughts ...
