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03141aam a2200373 i 4500 001 BB950242A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171003010225 008 170127s2017 enka b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016962477 020 $a 0198733704 020 $a 9780198733706 035 $a (OCoLC)970607344 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLE $d YDX $d OCLCO $d INU $d VA@ $d EQO $d MBB $d TFW $d IUL $d OCLCA $d WTU $d YOU $d ZCU $d MNU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a PR585 P85 W45 2017 100 1 $a Whitehead, James $c (Writer on romanticism) $e author. 245 10 $a Madness and the Romantic poet : $b a critical history / $c James Whitehead. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xi, 304 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index. 520 $a "Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder--ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally--again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Romanticism $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and mental illness $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x Appreciation. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Intellectual life $y 19th century. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707013014.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710105012.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BB950242A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search