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The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations
Middle Ages to the Present
Series: - Narratives and Mental Health, Volume: 4
This volume investigates the role of English, British, Irish, American, Canadian and Nigerian anglophone literary conceptualizations of mental and social distress, its diagnosis and treatment as transformative parts of the cultural heritage of psychiatry. Demonstrating that the history of psychiatry is not a narrative of unbridled, unequivocal progress, the volume explores how literary texts negotiate and critique dominant and alternative forms and traditions of treatment and care, how they challenge the medicalization of non-normative thoughts and behaviour and how they bear witness to and fragmentarily retrieve and imagine suppressed voices, thereby producing counter-cultural memories.
Katrin Röder is Professor of English Literature at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. Her research areas include early modern and 18th-century literature and culture, affect studies, gender studies, critical disability studies and contemporary anglophone life storying. She has co-edited a themed issue on âShame and Shamelessness in Anglophone Literature and Mediaâ with the European Journal of English Studies (2019) and is currently preparing a monograph on shame as a narrative affect in contemporary automedial art.
Cornelia Wächter is Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The âWarderâ in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (2015) and co-editor of, for instance, Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing (2022) and Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry (2024). She was the principal investigator and coordinator of the international, interdisciplinary network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Cornelia Wächter is Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The âWarderâ in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (2015) and co-editor of, for instance, Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing (2022) and Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry (2024). She was the principal investigator and coordinator of the international, interdisciplinary network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âKatrin Röder and Cornelia Wächter
1 Corrupted Feelings: Emotions and Mental Health in Medieval Religious Texts
âDaniel McCann
2 Madness, Polemic and Compassion: the Stigmatisation of Spiritual Affliction in the Life-writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
âPaula Barros
3 Madhouses, Female âMadnessâ and Forms of Caring in Mary Wollstonecraftâs The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and Charlotte Smithâs The Young Philosopher
âKatrin Röder
4 William Godwinâs Mandeville, Madness and the Case for/against Moral Management
âGerold Sedlmayr
5 Madness and Romanticism in Percy Bysshe Shelleyâs âJulian and Maddaloâ
âCian Duffy
6 âThis my hostile bodyâ: Therapy and Mental Pathology in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
âJoseph Crawford
7 Beyond the Disease Paradigm of Drug Use: De Quinceyâs Opium-Eating as Self-Medication
âMartina Allen
8 Fact or Fiction? Dissociative Identity Disorder, Narrative, and the Agency Afforded by Integration
âNaomi Rokotnitz
9 âThe eloquence of the locks and barsâ
Confinement as Metaphor in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and American Literary Representations of Mental Illness
âRoman Bischof-Vegh
10 Anti-Psychiatry Heritage and the Publication of Phoenix Rising in Toronto, Canada, 1980â1990
âGeoffrey Reaume
11 âAgainst the assault of withering truthâ
Inconvenient Women and Co-Constructed Memory in Maggie OâFarrellâs The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and Sebastian Barryâs The Secret Scripture
âMaren Scheurer
12 Multiple Psychiatries: Re-Membering Psychiatry in Contemporary Anglophone Novels
âChristina Slopek-Hauff
13 Where the âmad womanâ Meets the âClub Van Goghâ: Claiming Cultural Heritage while Defying Damaging (Stereo)Typification
âAnne Rüggemeier
14 The Psychotropic Revolution in the Light of Feminist and Queer Interventions
Hilary Mantelâs Giving Up the Ghost and Ann Cvetkovichâs Depression
âEveline Kilian
15 Diagnostic Rhythms: Empathy and Pathology in Greenâs My Alien Self
âSandra Marzinkowski
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âKatrin Röder and Cornelia Wächter
1 Corrupted Feelings: Emotions and Mental Health in Medieval Religious Texts
âDaniel McCann
2 Madness, Polemic and Compassion: the Stigmatisation of Spiritual Affliction in the Life-writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
âPaula Barros
3 Madhouses, Female âMadnessâ and Forms of Caring in Mary Wollstonecraftâs The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and Charlotte Smithâs The Young Philosopher
âKatrin Röder
4 William Godwinâs Mandeville, Madness and the Case for/against Moral Management
âGerold Sedlmayr
5 Madness and Romanticism in Percy Bysshe Shelleyâs âJulian and Maddaloâ
âCian Duffy
6 âThis my hostile bodyâ: Therapy and Mental Pathology in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
âJoseph Crawford
7 Beyond the Disease Paradigm of Drug Use: De Quinceyâs Opium-Eating as Self-Medication
âMartina Allen
8 Fact or Fiction? Dissociative Identity Disorder, Narrative, and the Agency Afforded by Integration
âNaomi Rokotnitz
9 âThe eloquence of the locks and barsâ
Confinement as Metaphor in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and American Literary Representations of Mental Illness
âRoman Bischof-Vegh
10 Anti-Psychiatry Heritage and the Publication of Phoenix Rising in Toronto, Canada, 1980â1990
âGeoffrey Reaume
11 âAgainst the assault of withering truthâ
Inconvenient Women and Co-Constructed Memory in Maggie OâFarrellâs The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and Sebastian Barryâs The Secret Scripture
âMaren Scheurer
12 Multiple Psychiatries: Re-Membering Psychiatry in Contemporary Anglophone Novels
âChristina Slopek-Hauff
13 Where the âmad womanâ Meets the âClub Van Goghâ: Claiming Cultural Heritage while Defying Damaging (Stereo)Typification
âAnne Rüggemeier
14 The Psychotropic Revolution in the Light of Feminist and Queer Interventions
Hilary Mantelâs Giving Up the Ghost and Ann Cvetkovichâs Depression
âEveline Kilian
15 Diagnostic Rhythms: Empathy and Pathology in Greenâs My Alien Self
âSandra Marzinkowski
Index
This book is of immediate interest to students and scholars of cultural studies, literary studies, history, psychology, medical humanities, disability studies and mad studies.