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Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind

Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind

Béres Rogers, Kathleen

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 3030139875
ISBN13: 9783030139872
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era's anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 The Tell Tale Heart) and some not (like Charlotte Dacre's 1811 The Passions and Charles Brockden Brown's 1787 Edgar Huntly), the book looks at vigilia, an overly intense curiosity, intellectual monomania, an obsession with study, nymphomania and erotomania, gendered forms of desire, revolutiana, an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and ideality, an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today.

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