Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Van Zuylen, Marina.

Title Monomania : the flight from everyday life in literature and art / Marina van Zuylen.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2005]
©2005

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN56.M45 V36 2005    Available  ---
Description x, 238 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pierre Janet : the phobia of everyday life -- Flaubert : the revenge of art on life -- The cult of the unreal : Nodier and romantic monomania -- Between Kant and Hegel : Baudelaire's dialogue with obsession -- Middlemarch : abstraction and empathy -- Musings on hypochondria : Thomas Mann's magic thermometer -- Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé : the scholarly malady -- The cure in the disease : Nina Bouraoui's melancholic imperative -- Voyeuristic monomania : Sophie Calle's rituals.
Subject Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.
European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
European literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
ISBN 0801442982 alkaline paper
0801489865 paperback alkaline paper