| Description |
viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 266-297. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. Dramatic or psychological monologue?: Dramatic monologue and Victorian criticism -- Dramatic monologue and its precedents -- Psychological poetry and mental science -- 2. New mental science: Introspective psychology -- Mesmerism -- Psychological medicine -- 3. Psychological school of poetry: beginnings: Evolution of the new genre -- Critics and poets vis-a-vis mental scientists -- Age of introspection -- 4. Psychological school of poetry: origins: Robert Browning -- Alfred Tennyson -- From introspection to psycho-analysis -- 5. Precedents I: the romantic "science of feelings": Self-analysis versus spontaneity -- Unconscious creativity and its limits -- Emotions recollected in tranquillity -- Simulated spontaneity and self-dramatization -- Toward the dramatic monologue -- 6. Precedents II: Shakespeare: Linguistic and prosodic model -- Shakespeare and the alienists -- Shakespeare's psychology and pre-romantic criticism -- 7. Dead end: Matthew Arnold: Search for the buried self -- Greater romantic lyric In extremis -- Matthew Arnold and psychology -- Empedocles on Etna and spasmodic drama -- Maud, or the way out of the impasse -- 8. Psychological school of poetry: patterns: Opening, setting, and listener -- Situation, action, and conclusion -- Dramatic narrative and psychological revivification -- 9. Psychological school of poetry: contents: Relativist versus traditional morality -- Psychology of murder and suicide -- Psychology of history -- From reverie to insanity -- From case history to surrealistic effusion -- 10. Swinburne, or the psychopathology of poetic creation: Dramatizations of the perverse -- Insane artists and alienist biographers -- A poetics of madness and revolt -- Epilogue: Toward a poète maudit aesthetic. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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Psychology and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychology and literature. |
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History. |
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Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatry. |
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Dramatic monologues -- History and criticism.
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Dramatic monologues. |
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Poetry -- Psychological aspects.
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Poetry -- Psychological aspects. |
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychology in literature. |
| ISBN |
0691067481 alkaline paper $34.50 |
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9780691067483 alkaline paper |
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0691015112 paperback |
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9780691015118 paperback |
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