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Author:

Van Zuylen, Marina

Title:

Monomania : the flight from everyday life in literature and art / Marina van Zuylen.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

x, 238 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mental illness in literature
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature
European literature--19th century--History and criticism.
European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.

Contents:

Pierre Janet : the phobia of everyday life -- Flaubert : the revenge of art on life -- The cult of the unreal : Nodier and romantic monomania -- Between Kant and Hegel : Baudelaire's dialogue with obsession -- Middlemarch : abstraction and empathy -- Musings on hypochondria : Thomas Mann's magic thermometer -- Elias Canetti's Auto-da-f©♭ : the scholarly malady -- The cure in the disease : Nina Bouraoui's melancholic imperative -- Voyeuristic monomania : Sophie Calle's rituals.

ISBN:

9780801489860
0801489865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801442988
0801442982 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56733193

LCCN:

2004023886

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)