Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism

by Ross Woodman

Book Overview

In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442610298
• ISBN13: 9781442610293
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher