Cultural Constructions of Madness in the Eighteenth Century deals with the (mis)representation of insanity through a substantial range of literary forms and fig

Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back t

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorte

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary a