Nov 5, 2017 - (Harmondsworth: Penguin) [c. 1450]. SELECTED CHAPTERS ONLY: The Proem, chapters 1-13, 17, 22, 28, 35&3
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Madness Past and Present COM210
2017-2018 Module Outline and Reading Lists Dr Elena Carrera (
[email protected])
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Optional single semester level 5 course
Content Description This course examines how madness has been constructed and represented in Western culture from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It looks at both medical and popular understandings and representations of madness prevailing at crucial historical moments, and analyses the ways in which madness as a theme has been explored and exploited in a wide selection of genres including autobiography, essays, novels, short stories and drama.
Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
understand key issues related to the cultural history of madness reflect critically upon historical, social and cultural changes in attitudes towards madness and the mad relate cultural representations of madness to their immediate socio-historical contexts compare and contrast representations of the theme of madness across different literary genres demonstrate knowledge of, and make theoretically informed connections between, texts of different periods, genres and cultures construct cogent and sophisticated critical essays with evidence of individual study and initiative demonstrate familiarity with basic research and bibliographical skills formulate theoretically informed arguments and express these clearly and effectively
Assessment Assessment: 1500-word essay (40%)
Deadline: 11.55pm Sunday 5 November 2017 (week 6)
2500-word essay (60%)
11.55pm Sunday 7 January 2018
You MUST follow the guidelines laid out in your Student Handbook when writing essays, referencing sources and compiling bibliographies.
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Course Structure and Outline WEEK FORMAT 1 Lecture
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TOPIC Course outline and introduction
Seminar
Madness and medicine in Antiquity (Hippocrates and Galen: materials provided in seminar)
Lecture
Madness and the medieval period
Seminar
The Book of Margery Kempe (selected chapters only)
Lecture
Madness, gender and genre in The Book Margery Kempe
Seminar
The Book Margery Kempe (selected chapters only)
Lecture
Don Quixote: Renaissance approaches to madness
Seminar
Don Quixote (selected chapters only)
Lecture
Don Quixote: literature and influence
Seminar
Don Quixote continued (selected chapters only)
Lecture
Madness and medicine in the 18th Century
Seminar
The Madness of George III (the play – NOT the film script)
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READING WEEK Lecture
Madness and society in the 19th Century
Seminar
‘The Diary of a Madman’ – Gogol
Lecture
Madness and society continued: the early 20th Century
Seminar
Xun’s ‘Diary of a Madman’, and comparative readings of Gogol and Xun Psychoanalytical Developments in the 20th Century
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Comparative readings of Freud’s ‘Mourning and Melancholy’ and Kristeva’s ‘A Counterdepressant’ Current legal, medical and social perspectives on mental health
Seminar
Poppy Shakespeare
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Course summary
Seminar
Poppy Shakespeare continued
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Primary Texts Week One: Hippocrates and Galen – HANDOUTS PROVIDED IN SEMINAR
Weeks Two and Three: Kempe, Margery (1985) The Book of Margery Kempe trans. Barry Windeatt (Harmondsworth: Penguin) [c. 1450] SELECTED CHAPTERS ONLY: The Proem, chapters 1-13, 17, 22, 28, 35&36, 44, 75
Weeks Four and Five: Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote (2001) trans. John Rutherford (New York: Penguin) [1605] (This is the recommended recent translation, but an older English translation is available for free at http://www.gutenberg.org) SELECTED CHAPTERS ONLY: The First Part: Prologue, chapters 1-16, 23-26
Week Six: Bennett, Alan (1992) The Madness of George III (London: Faber and Faber) PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ THE PLAY AND NOT THE FILM SCRIPT (THEY HAVE DIFFERENT TITLES SO AVOID THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE)
Week Eight: Gogol, Nikolai (2003) ‘The Diary of a Madman’ in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (London: Granta) [1834] ON QM+
Week Nine: Xun, Lu (1990) ‘Diary of a Madman’ in Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. trans. William Lyell (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press) [1918] ON QM+
Week Ten: Freud, Sigmund ‘Mourning and Melancholy’ (2000/1917) in The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, ed. Jennifer Radden (Oxford: OUP) ON QM+ AND Kristeva, Julia (2000/1989) ‘A Counterdepressant’, in The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, ed. Jennifer Radden (Oxford: OUP) ON QM+
Weeks Eleven and Twelve: Allan, Clare (2006) Poppy Shakespeare (London: Bloomsbury)
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Critical Texts Below are some suggestions, but please conduct your own research too! Titles are either available online, at QM library, through JSTOR, or, where indicated, are provided on QM+. Week One Telles-Correia Diogo and João Gama Marques (2015) ‘Melancholia before the twentieth century: fear and sorrow or partial insanity?’, Frontiers in Psychology, 6: (article 81) 1-4 ON QMPLUS Margery Kempe: Freeman, Phyllis, Carly Rees Bogorad and Diane E. Sholomskas (1990) ‘Margery Kempe, a New Theory: the Inadequacy of Hysteria and Postpartum Psychosis as Diagnostic Categories’, History of Psychiatry, 1.2.2: 169-190 Harper, Stephen (2003) ‘“So euyl to rewlyn”: Madness and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe,’ in Insanity, Individuals, and Society in Late-Medieval English Literature (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen) ON QM+ Jefferies, Diana and Debbie Horsfall (2014) ‘Forged by fire: Margery Kempe's account of postnatal psychosis’, Literature and Medicine, 32.2: 348-36 Roffe, David (1998) ‘Perceptions http://www.roffe.co.uk/keele.htm
of
Insanity
in
Medieval
England’
Roffe, David and Christine Roffe (1995) ‘Looking Back: Madness and Care in the Community: A Medieval Perspective’ British Medical Journal 311: 1708-1712 Don Quixote: Aladro, Jorge (2008) ‘A Study of Melancholy in Don Quixote’, in Cervantes and Don Quixote, ed. Vibha Maurya and Arellano (Hyderabad: Emesco), 163-180 ON QM+ Arellano, Ignacio (2008) ‘Quixote’s Insanity and Sancho Panza’s Wisdom’, in Cervantes and Don Quixote, ed. Vibha Maurya and Arellano (Hyderabad: Emesco) ON QM+ Green, Otis H. (1957) ‘El Ingenioso Hidalgo’, Hispanic Review 25: 175-93. ON QM+ Heiple, Daniel L. (1979) ‘Renaissance Medical Psychology in Don Quijote’, Journal of Ideologies and Literature 9: 65-72 ON QM+ Johnson, Carroll B. (1983) Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Don Quijote (Berkeley: University of California Press) Maurya, Vibha (2008) ‘Don Quixote and the Theory of the Polyphonic Novel’, in Cervantes and Don Quixote, ed. Vibha Maurya and Arellano (Hyderabad: Emesco), 25-40 ON QM+
5 Murillo, L. A. (1990) A Critical Introduction to Don Quixote (New York: Peter Lang) Nadler, Steven (1997) ‘Descartes's Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 58.1: 41-55 ON QM+ Quint, David (2005) Cervantes’s Novel of Modern Times: A New Reading of Don Quijote (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Sen, Sambudha (2008) ‘Don Quixote and the Problem of Fiction Making’, in Cervantes and Don Quixote, ed. Vibha Maurya and Arellano (Hyderabad: Emesco), 3-15 Sobré, J. M. (1976) ‘Don Quixote, the Hero Upside-Down’ Hispanic Review, 44: 127-41 The Madness of George III: Cox, Timothy M, Nicola Jack, Simon Lofthouse, John Watling, Janice Haines, Martin J Warren, ‘King George III and porphyria: an elemental hypothesis and investigation’, The Lancet, 366 (2005) 332-335 ON QM+ Digby, Anne (1985) ‘Moral Treatment and the Retreat, 1796-1846’ in William Bynum, Frederick, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd, eds. The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry: Vol. 2: Institutions and Society (London: Tavistock) Macalpine, Ida and Richard Hunter (1966) 'The “Insanity” of King George III: a classic case of porphyria', British Medical Journal, 1: 65–71 ON QM+ Porter, Roy (1987) Mind Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Schmidt, Jeremy (2004) ‘Melancholy and the Therapeutic Language of Moral Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Thought’ Journal of the History of Ideas, 65.4: 583-601 ON QM+ ‘The Diary of a Madman’ (Gogol): Gregg, Richard (1999) ‘Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman”: The Fallible Scribe and the Sinister Bulge’ The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3: 439-451 ON QM+ Gustafson, Richard F. (1965) ‘The Suffering Usurper: Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman”’, The Slavic and East European Journal, 9.3: 268-280 ON QM+ Maguire, Robert (1994) ‘Place Within: “Diary of a Madman”’ in Exploring Gogol (Stanford: Stanford University Press) ON QM+ Peace, Richard (1981) The Enigma of Gogol: An Examination of the Writings of N .V. Gogol and their place in the Russian Literary Tradition (Cambridge: CUP) ON QM+
6 ‘Diary of a Madman’ (Xun): Brown, Carolyn T. (1984) ‘The Paradigm of the Iron House: Shouting and Silence in Lu Hsün's Short Stories’ Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 6.1/2: 101-119 ON QM+ Chinnery, J. D. (1960) ‘The Influence of Western Literature on Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman”’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 23.2: 309-322 ON QM+ Hanan, Patrick (1974) ‘The Technique of Lu Hsün's Fiction’ Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 34: 53-96 ON QM+ Huters, Theodor (1994) ‘The Stories of Lu Xun’ in Barbara S. Miller, ed. Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: a Guide for Teaching (London: Sharpe) ON QM+ Tang, Xiaobing (1992) ‘Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” and a Chinese Modernism’, PMLA 107, 5: 1222-34 ON QM+ Wong, Yoon-Wah (1988) Essays on Chinese Literature: A Comparative Approach (Singapore: Singapore University Press) ON QM+ Freud: Bradbury, Mary (2001) ‘Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia’ Morality 6, 2: 212-18 ON QM+ Cahart-Harris, Robin L et al. (2008) ‘Mourning and Melancholia Revisited: Correspondences between Principles of Freudian Metapsychology and Empirical Findings in Neuropsychiatry’ Annals of General Psychiatry, 7, 9: 1-23 ON QM+ Polmear, Caroline (2004) ‘Dying to Live: Mourning, Melancholia and the Adolescent Process’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 30, 3: 263-74 ON QM+ Kristeva: Lechte, John (1990) ‘Art, Love, and Melancholy in the Work of Julia Kristeva’, in John Lechte and Andrew Benjamin, eds. Abjection, Melancholia and Love – The Work of Julia Kristeva (London: Routledge) ON QM+ Lechte, John (2004) ‘Love and Death by Any Other Name… (on Love and Melancholia)’ in John Lechte and Maria Margaroni, eds. Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (London: Continuum) ON QM+ Radden, Jennifer, ed. (2000) The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva (Oxford: OUP) McAffee, Noelle (2004) Julia Kristeva (London: Routledge) ON QM+ Smith, Anne-Marie (1998) Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable (London: Pluto Press) ON QM+
7 Poppy Shakespeare: Buchanan-Barker, Phil and Barker, Poppy (2009) ‘The convenient myth of Thomas Szasz’, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16: 87–95 ON QM+ Cox, Annabel (2014) ‘Poppy Shakespeare: Verging on the Historical’, English 63.240: 57-78 [first published online July 18 2013] ON QM+ Riggan, William (1981) Pícaros, Madmen, Naïfs, and Clowns: the Unreliable FirstPerson Narrator (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press) (=Also useful for Don Quixote, Gogol and Xun) Roberts, Marc (2007) ‘Modernity, mental illness and the crisis of meaning’, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 14: 277–281 ON QM+
Further Reading Burton, Robert (1621) The
Anatomy
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Melancholy
Doerner, Klaus (1981) Madmen and the Bourgeoisie: a Social History of Insanity and Psychiatry trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Jean Steinberg (Oxford: Blackwell) Foucault, Michel (2001) Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (London: Routledge) MacDonald, Michael (1981) Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: CUP) Middelfort, H. C. Erik (1980) ‘Madness and Civilisation in Early Modern Europe’, in Barbara C. Malament, ed. After the Reformation: Essays in Honour of J. H. Hexter (Manchester: Manchester University Press) Neely, Carol Thomas (2004) Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (Ithaca and London: Cornell U P) Porter, Roy (1999) A Social History of Madness (London: Phoenix) Porter, Roy (2003) Madness: A Brief History (Oxford: OUP) Redmond, James (1993) Madness in Drama (CUP) Sander, Gilman (1982) Seeing the Insane (New York: John Wiley) Scull, Andrew (1993) The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press) Shorter, Edward (1997) A History of Psychiatry: From the Age of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (New York: John Wiley)
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Shorter, Edward (2005) A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (New York: OUP) Showalter, Elaine (1985) The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 (New York: Pantheon Books)
