The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness

by Thomas C. Caramagno

Book Overview

In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a traumatic childhood.

But current knowledge about manic-depressive illness--its genetic transmission,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205049
• ISBN13: 9780520205048
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"