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Dramatizing Dementia: Madness In The Plays Of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline O'Connor
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
Library of Congress PS3545.I5365Z795 1997 | Dewey Decimal 812.54

Jacqueline O’Connor examines how Tennessee Williams portrayed society’s treatment of the mentally ill. The critical approach is eclectic and the author draws on a variety of psychological, literary, and biographical sources.
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Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
Wilentz, Gay
Rutgers University Press, 2000
Library of Congress PS374.M44W55 2000 | Dewey Decimal 813.509353

In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main character moving form a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions. Whether due to the history of diaspora, colonial oppression, or the subversion of traditional culture by modernity, illness can only be overcome when the cultural construction of disease is recognized and a link to the indigenous is restored. Wilentz's cross-cultural approach-African American, Jamaican, Native American, Maori, and Jewish stories-offers a rich context from which the basis of cultural illness can be examined.
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The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre
Larry Stephen Clifton
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
Library of Congress PR4699.F9Z55 1993

The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball’s life, and his dramatic oeuvre.
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The Twisted Mind: Madness In Melville'S Fiction
Paul Mccarthy
University of Iowa Press, 1990
Library of Congress PS2388.M45M38 1990 | Dewey Decimal 813.3

Madness in Herman Melville's Fiction
Paul McCarthy

"Though madness has been a consistent topic in considerations of Melville's work, this is the first full-scale treatment of the subject. It is in a sense, then, a pioneering work that will no doubt receive widespread attention."

—William B. Dillingham
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4 books about Mentally ill in literature
Dramatizing Dementia
Madness In The Plays Of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline O'Connor
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
Jacqueline O’Connor examines how Tennessee Williams portrayed society’s treatment of the mentally ill. The critical approach is eclectic and the author draws on a variety of psychological, literary, and biographical sources.
[more]

Healing Narratives
Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
Wilentz, Gay
Rutgers University Press, 2000
In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main character moving form a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions. Whether due to the history of diaspora, colonial oppression, or the subversion of traditional culture by modernity, illness can only be overcome when the cultural construction of disease is recognized and a link to the indigenous is restored. Wilentz's cross-cultural approach-African American, Jamaican, Native American, Maori, and Jewish stories-offers a rich context from which the basis of cultural illness can be examined.
[more]

The Terrible Fitzball
The Melodramatist of the Macabre
Larry Stephen Clifton
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball’s life, and his dramatic oeuvre.
[more]

The Twisted Mind
Madness In Melville'S Fiction
Paul Mccarthy
University of Iowa Press, 1990
Madness in Herman Melville's Fiction
Paul McCarthy

"Though madness has been a consistent topic in considerations of Melville's work, this is the first full-scale treatment of the subject. It is in a sense, then, a pioneering work that will no doubt receive widespread attention."

—William B. Dillingham
[more]




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