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Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“Could It Be Madness, This?” Affective Difference and the Work of Composition
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“Their Lives a Storm Whereon They Ride”: Affective (Dis)order and the Literary Imagination
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lise Bagoley, Duquesne University, USA
David Bahr, The City University of New York, USA
Nancer Ballard, Brandeis University, USA
Jessica De Santa, University of St. Andrews, UK
Joann Deiudicibus, The State University of New York, USA
Stephanie Stone Horton, Georgia State University, USA
Marya Hornbacher, USA
Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College, USA
Stephen Newton, William Paterson University, USA
Jeannie Parker Beard, Georgia State University, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affective Disorder and the Writing Life
Book Subtitle: The Melancholic Muse
Editors: Stephanie Stone Horton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381668
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38165-1Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-38166-8Published: 28 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 145
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Creative Writing, Fiction