Retreat Into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry

by Ekbert Faas

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Here Ekbert Faas examines the complex interrelationships among the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics through an in-depth study of the Victorian dramatic monologue and its Romantic antecedents. Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, he focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth)...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691601585

ISBN13:9780691601588

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:322 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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