Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth Century Writing

1. Speaking It Like a Horse: Gulliver’s Travels and the Contexts of Insanity
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

2. Reconstructing the Classical Model: Pope’s Homer and Its Influence
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

3. ‘Th’ Unbalanc’d Mind’: Poetry, Satire and the Assimilation of Madness
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

4. The Madness of a Multitude’: Insanity, People and Prose
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

5. Acting the Part of a Madman: Insanity and the Stage
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

6. A Gendered Affliction: Women, Writing, Madness
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

7. ‘The Image of Our Mind’: Seeing and Being Seen
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

8. Madness Itself: the Real Story
Allan Ingram, Michelle Faubert

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Personality and Social Psychology, Poetry and Poetics