Faas Retreat into the Mind

Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6167-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 322 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent to which early psychiatry shaped the poetry, poetics, and general frame of mind of the Victorians. "In the nineteenth century, English poetry began to explore the psyche in ways contemporaries recognized as new. Wordsworth and Coleridge pioneered what Arnold, Tennyson, and Browning continued. Professor Faas painstakingly documents this, and reactions to it, with reference to simultaneous psychiatric work. Fascinating."--Encounter

Originally published in 1989.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Faas, Ekbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Introduction, pg. 1
I. Dramatic or Psychological Monologue, pg. 19
II. The New Mental Science, pg. 34
III. The Psychological School of Poetry: Beginnings, pg. 47
IV. The Psychological School of Poetry: Origins, pg. 63
V. Precedents I: The Romantic “Science of Feelings”, pg. 84
VI. Precedents II: Shakespeare, pg. 105
VII. Dead End: Matthew Arnold, pg. 121
VIII. The Psychological School of Poetry: Patterns, pg. 145
IX. The Psychological School of Poetry: Contents, pg. 162
X. Swinburne, or the Psychopathology of Poetic Creation, pg. 184
Epilogue: Toward a Poete Maudit Aesthetic, pg. 199
Appendix: Practitioners of the Dramatic Monologue Among Minor Victorian Poets, pg. 210
Notes, pg. 216
Bibliography, pg. 266
Index, pg. 299