现货Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind (2019)[9783030139872]

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作者Béres Rogers, Kathleen

出版社Palgrave MacMillan

ISBN9783030139872

出版时间2019-04

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页数206页

正文语种英语

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商品描述: Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era''s anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley''s 1818 Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe''s 1843 The Tell Tale Heart) and some not (like Charlotte Dacre''s 1811 The Passions and Charles Brockden Brown''s 1787 Edgar Huntly), the book looks at vigilia, an overly intense curiosity, intellectual monomania, an obsession with study, nymphomania and erotomania, gendered forms of desire, revolutiana, an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and ideality, an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today.