Title: Nightmares and hobbyhorses: Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness
Description: For students of the psychology and medicine of the Augustan age as well as to those interested in ist literature.
Subjects: Classicism, English Psychological fiction, English literature, History, History and criticism, Influence, Knowledge, Literature and mental illness, Mental illness, Mental illness in literature, Mentally ill in literature, Psychology, Public opinion, Roman influences, Insanity, Attitude to Health, Medicine in Literature, Mental Disorders, Knowledge and learning
Places: Great Britain
People: Augustus Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.-14 A.D), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Time periods: 18th century