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Symptoms of Disorder Symptoms of Disorder Reading Madness in British Literature, 1744–1845 EDITED BY Ilaria Natali and Annalisa Volpone Copyright 2016 Cambria Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to: [email protected], or mailed to: Cambria Press University Corporate Centre, 100 Corporate Parkway, Suite 128 Amherst, New York 14226, U.S.A. This book has been registered with the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978-160497-925-1 Table of Contents Introduction Ilaria Natali and Annalisa Volpone................................ 1 Part I: Experiencing Madness.......................................... 37 Chapter 1: Perceptions of Madness in the Works of Christopher Smart and William Cowper Ilaria Natali..................................................... 39 Chapter 2: William Blake’s Last Prophetic Books and Contemporary Brain Science Annalisa Volpone............................................... 67 Chapter 3: The Poetic Image as Cognitive Hypotyposis in S.T. Coleridge Mark Clark...................................................... 95 Chapter 4: Perceval’s Narrative Suzanne Rosenthal Shumway................................ 119 Part II: Writing about Madness...................................... 141 Chapter 5: Madness and Queer Longing in Clarissa Julie Beaulieu.................................................. 143 Chapter 6: Madness as Freedom and Subversion in Eighteenth- Century Female Quixotism Miriam Borham-Puyal........................................ 171 Chapter 7: Masculine Prerogative as Mental Disease in the Later Works of Eliza Haywood Karol Cooper................................................... 195 Chapter 8: Tennyson’s Maud Ann M. Mazur................................................. 221 vi Symptoms of Disorder About the Contributors................................................... 249 About the Editors.......................................................... 251 Index......................................................................... 253 Symptoms of Disorder
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