Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work /

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Author / Creator:	Berman, Jeffrey, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (1 volume)
Language:	English
Subject:	Autobiography -- Authorship. Authors -- Mental health. Literature and mental illness. Psychiatry in Literature. Mentally Ill Persons. Authors -- Mental health. Autobiography -- Authorship. Literature and mental illness.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12486019

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ISBN:	9781789738070 1789738075 1789738105 9781789738100 9781789738094 1789738091
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity. This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of writers who have lived, worked and created with a mental illness. Mad Muse examines and unpicks this fascinating relationship, demonstrating that mental illness is often intergenerational while the story of mental illness is intertextual.The study begins with William Styron's iconic memoir Darkness Visible, moving through a succession of mental illness memoirs from some of the most important authors in the genre, including Kate Millett, Kay Redfield Jamison, Linda Sexton, Lauren Slater, Andrew Solomon and Elyn Saks.From memoirs that blur the boundaries between historical truth and narrative truth to a first-person account of schizophrenia, Berman discusses the challenges of reading books which inspire hope and courage in many readers but may also sometimes have unintended consequences. In so doing, it illuminates the complex, co-existing relationship between the arts and mental health and represents an invaluable contribution to the study of health humanities.
Other form:	Print version: BERMAN, JEFFREY. MAD MUSE. [Place of publication not identified] : EMERALD GROUP PUBL, 2019 1789738105

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Out of the Closet to Bear Witness Chapter 1. "The Landscape of Depression"; William Styron and Darkness Visible Chapter 2. "My Proclaimed Sanity and My Conjectured Madness"; Kate Millett and The Loony-Bin Trip Chapter 3. "A Strange and Driving Force, a Destroyer, a Fire in the Blood"; Kay Redfield Jamison and An Unquiet Mind Chapter 4. "For Better or Worse You Inherit Me"; Linda Gray Sexton and Searching for Mercy Street and Half in Love Chapter 5. "Truth Is Bendable"; Lauren Slater and Lying Chapter 6. "I Cannot Separate Her Homophobia from My Own"; Andrew Solomon and The Noonday Demon Chapter 7. "Someone Acts Through My Brain"; Elyn R. Saks and The Center Cannot Hold Conclusion: The Challenges of Reading Mad Memoirs.

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