Retreat Into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry

by Ekbert Faas

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601585
• ISBN13: 9780691601588
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"