Madness in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Madness in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Overview
  • Madness
• Autobiography
  • Elizabeth Packard and Versions of Sanity
• Poetry
  • Shelley's 'Void Circumference': The Aesthetic of Nihilism
  • Madness as Metaphor and the Idylls of the King
  • Swinburne, or the Psychopathology of Poetic Creation
  • Clare's 'Child Harold'
• Fiction
  • Madness in Novels
  • 'The Frenzied Moment': Sex and Insanity in Jane Eyre
  • Scientific Terror
  • The Journey from Reason to Madness: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
  • Madness in Hawthorne's Fiction
  • The World is Mad: Moby-Dick
  • 'Preaching to the Nerves': Psychological Disorder in Sensation Fiction
• Further Reading