Research Catalog

Title

Retreat into the mind : Victorian poetry and the rise of psychiatry / by Ekbert Faas.

Author

Faas, Ekbert, 1938-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.

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Details

Description

viii, 312 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1837-1901
• Geschichte 1832-1902
• English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Psychoanalysis and literature > Great Britain
• Psychology and literature > History > 19th century
• Psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Dramatic monologues > History and criticism
• Poetry > Psychological aspects
• Psychology in literature
• Psychoanalysis and literature > History > 19th century
• Poetry > history
• Psychiatry > history
• Dramatic monologues
• English poetry
• Psychiatry
• Psychoanalysis and literature
• Psychology and literature
• Englisch
• Dramatic monologue
• Lyrik
• Psychiatrie
• Psychoanalyse
• Psychologie
• Gedichten
• Psychologie
• Psychoanalyse
• Great Britain
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 266-297.

Contents

1. Dramatic or psychological monologue?: The dramatic monologue and Victorian criticism -- The dramatic monologue and its precedents -- Psychological poetry and mental science -- 2. The new mental science: Introspective psychology -- Mesmerism -- Psychological medicine -- 3. The psychological school of poetry: beginnings: The evolution of the new genre -- Critics and poets vis-a-vis mental scientists -- The age of introspection -- 4. The psychological school of poetry: origins: Robert Browning -- Alfred Tennyson -- From introspection to psycho-analysis -- 5. Precedents I: the romantic "science of feelings": Self-analysis versus spontaneity -- Unconscious creativity and its limits -- Emotions recollected in tranquillity -- Simulated spontaneity and self-dramatization -- Toward the dramatic monologue -- 6. Precedents II: Shakespeare: The linguistic and prosodic model -- Shakespeare and the alienists -- Shakespeare's psychology and pre-romantic criticism -- 7. Dead end: Matthew Arnold: The search for the buried self -- The greater romantic lyric In extremis -- Matthew Arnold and psychology -- Empedocles on Etna and spasmodic drama -- Maud, or the way out of the impasse -- 8. The psychological school of poetry: patterns: Opening, setting, and listener -- Situation, action, and conclusion -- Dramatic narrative and psychological revivification -- 9. The psychological school of poetry: contents: Relativist versus traditional morality -- The psychology of murder and suicide -- The psychology of history -- From reverie to insanity -- From case history to surrealistic effusion -- 10. Swinburne, or the psychopathology of poetic creation: Dramatizations of the perverse -- Insane artists and alienist biographers -- A poetics of madness and revolt -- Epilogue: Toward a poète maudit aesthetic.

ISBN

• 0691067481
• 9780691067483
• 0691015112
• 9780691015118

LCCN

88009948

OCLC

• ocm17765717
• 17765717
• SCSB-14170162

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library