Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

by Tony James

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Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, L lut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198151888

ISBN13:9780198151883

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Psychology

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