Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

AL ALVAREZ Notable poet, critic and writerPAT BARKER Well-known author of The Regeneration Trilogy, amongst othersANTONIA BYATT Writer and literary critic; winner of the Booker Prize in 1990ROBIN DOWNIE Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, UKMARTYN EVANS Chair of Humanities in Medicine, University of Durham, UKDAVID FULLER Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UKALLAN INGRAM Professor of English and Head of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UKMICHAEL O'DONNELL Well-known as doctor, writer and broadcasterMICHAEL O'NEILL Professor and Chairman of English Studies, University of Durham, UKADAM PIETTE Reader in English, Glasgow University, UKROY PORTER Former Professor in the Wellcome Trust Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London (died 2002)IGNÈS SODRÉ Author and psychoanalystSTEPHEN SYKES Professor of Theology, University of Durham and Principal of St John's College, DurhamPATRICIA WAUGH Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UK

• Introduction: C.Saunders &J.Macnaughton PART ONE: READING MADNESS: LITERATURE IN MEDICINE Madness and Creativity: Communication and Excommunication; R.Porter Doctors as Performance Artists; M.O'Donnell Ambiguity in Attitudes to Madness and Creativity; R.Downie PART TWO: MADNESS IN LITERATURE; MEDIEVAL TO MODERN 'The thoughtful maladie': Madness and Vision in Medieval Writing; C.Saunders 'Inexpressibly Dreadful': Depression, Confession and Language in 18th Century Britain; A.Ingram Wonders in the Deep: Cowper, Melancholy and Religion; S.Sykes 'Mad as a refuge from unbelief': William Blake and the Sanity of Dissidence; D.Fuller 'Why then Ile Fit You': Poetry and Madness from Wordsworth to Berryman; M.O'Neill Madness, Medicine and Creativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain ; M.Evans PART THREE: WRITING MADNESS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE Creative Writers and Psychopathology: The Cultural Consolations of 'The Wound and the Bow' Thesis: P.Waugh The Myth of the Artist: A.Alvarez On Writing Madness (Dialogue); A.Byatt & I.Sodré Breaking Down or Breaking Out? (Dialogue); P.Barker & A.Piette Index