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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Monomania"”.
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Monomania: The Life and Death of a Psychiatric Idea in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1836-1860
… about the nineteenth-century psychiatric idea, monomania, in medical, literary and popular discourse from 1836-1860. I examine patient case-notes from the Bethlem, York Retreat and Surrey County Pauper Asylum to establish that the experiential or ‘real’ narratives of monomaniacs confirm the …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… themes will be highlighted. These themes include monomania (a form of insanity), the fear of premature burial, repression, the importance of midnight, and the return of both the deceased and the repressed.
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
The “madman’s” place throughout history has tended to be a mystery on both ontological and epistemological levels. From the perception of the madman as a crazed oracle in the sixteenth century to the perception of the madman as a criminal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the …