LEADER 03548nam 22005775 450 001 9910484951303321 005 20250609110041.0 010 $a9783030139889 010 $a3030139883 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-13988-9 035 $a(CKB)4930000000042138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5742715 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-13988-9 035 $a(Perlego)3493855 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5918040 035 $a(EXLCZ)994930000000042138 100 $a20190329d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating Romantic Obsession $eScorpions in the Mind /$fby Kathleen Béres Rogers 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 08$a9783030139872 311 08$a3030139875 327 $a1. Introduction: Scorpions in the Mind -- 2. Vigilia and the Science of the Mind in William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or Memories of a Sleepwalker -- 3. Intellectual Monomania and Enthusiasm in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- 4. The Stings of Love: Erotomania and Nymphomania in John Keats's Isabella, or The Pot of Basil and Charlotte Dacre's The Passions -- 5. Revolutiana and the Sublime in George Gleig's Subaltern, Lord Byron's Siege of Corinth, and Joanna Baillie's Count Basil -- 6. Ideality and Art in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Edgar Allen Poe's "Berenice" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" -- 7. Coda: From Scorpions to Spiders, A.S. Byatt's Possession. 330 $aMost of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era's anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 "The Tell Tale Heart") and some not (like Charlotte Dacre's 1811 The Passions and Charles Brockden Brown's 1787 Edgar Huntly), the book looks at "vigilia", an overly intense curiosity, "intellectual monomania", an obsession with study, "nymphomania" and "erotomania", gendered forms of desire, "revolutiana", an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and "ideality," an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aPoetry 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aPoetry. 615 14$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 676 $a820.9 676 $a820.9 700 $aBéres Rogers$b Kathleen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225265 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484951303321 996 $aCreating Romantic Obsession$92844893 997 $aUNINA