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

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Description	1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
Summary	'Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession.
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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
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Van Zuylen, Marina. Monomania. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2005 0801442982 (DLC) 2004023886 (OCoLC)56733193
ISBN	9781501717451 (electronic book)
	1501717456 (electronic book)
	0801442982
	9780801442988
	0801489865
	9780801489860

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

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