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Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry
By (Author) Ekbert Faas
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.809353
Paperback
322
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Here Ekbert Faas examines the complex interrelationships among the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics through an in-depth study of the Victorian dramatic monologue and its Romantic antecedents. Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, he focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological scho