Monomania
Subtitle: the flight from everyday life in literature and art
By: Marina van Zuylen.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Mental illness in literature.; Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature.; European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pierre Janet : the phobia of everyday life; title: Flaubert : the revenge of art on life; title: The cult of the unreal : Nodier and romantic monomania; title: Between Kant and Hegel : Baudelaire's dialogue with obsession; title: Middlemarch : abstraction and empathy; title: Musings on hypochondria : Thomas Mann's magic thermometer; title: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé : the scholarly malady; title: The cure in the disease : Nina Bouraoui's melancholic imperative; title: Voyeuristic monomania : Sophie Calle's rituals.