LEADER 03537nam 22006615 450 001 9910484964703321 005 20240724125337.0 010 $a9783030216719 010 $a3030216713 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-21671-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000008747479 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5839973 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-21671-9 035 $a(Perlego)3491627 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008747479 100 $a20190724d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInspiration and Insanity in British Poetry $e1825-1855 /$fby Joseph Crawford 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (253 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 08$a9783030216702 311 08$a3030216705 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. 'He was not one of ye': poetry and mental peculiarity, 1825-36 -- 3. 'Ah! let me not be fool'd': delusion and inspiration in the poems of Browning and Tennyson, 1832-40 -- 4. Sir William's last stand: poetry and insanity in England, 1837-42 -- 5. Seeing Things: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Romantic Poetry, 1836-55 -- 6. 'The Madness': inspiration and insanity in Spasmodic poetry, 1851-55 -- 7. Epilogue: 'It is strange.'. 330 $aThis book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum system and shifting medical discourses of the period, it investigates the ways in which Britain's post-Romantic poets understood their own poetic vocations within a cultural context that insistently linked poetic talent with illness and insanity. Joseph Crawford examines the popularity of mesmerism among the writers of the era, as an alternative system of medicine that provided a more sympathetic account of the nature of poetic genius, and investigates the persistent tension, found throughout the literary and medical writings of the period, between the Romantic ideal of the poet as a transcendent visionary genius and the 'medico-psychological' conception of poets as mere case studies in abnormal neurological development. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aPoetry 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aCognitive psychology 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aPhilosophy of Mind 606 $aCognitive Psychology 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aCognitive psychology. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Mind. 615 24$aCognitive Psychology. 676 $a820.8 676 $a821.709 700 $aCrawford$b Joseph$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0801100 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484964703321 996 $aInspiration and Insanity in British Poetry$92848820 997 $aUNINA