The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness

by Thomas C. Caramagno

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In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood.

But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness--its genetic transmission,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520205049

ISBN13:9780520205048

Release Date:February 1996

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:362 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Bipolar Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Mental Health Regional U.S.

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