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In New York City in the 1820s, Allan and Maria Melvill had hopes of the good life: a happy family, a fine home with servants and a carriage, a fashionable neighborhood, excellent schools, and other marks of social and financial success.

American literature --- Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Aliénation mentale dans la littérature --- Geesteszieken in de literatuur --- Gekte in de literatuur --- Insanity in literature --- Krankzinnigheid in de literatuur --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Mental illness in literature --- Mentally ill in literature --- Waanzin in de literatuur --- Characters --- Mentally ill --- Knowledge --- Psychology

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Psychoanalysis and literature --- Mental illness in literature. --- Mentally ill in literature --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature --- Sterne, Laurence, --- Thematology --- Sterne, Laurence --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature

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Authors [Insane ] --- Fous littéraires --- Geesteszieken in de literatuur --- Literature and mental illness --- Literatuur en geestesziekten --- Littérature et aliénisme --- Littérature et folie --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Littérature et psychoses --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales et littérature --- Mental illness and literature --- Mentally ill in literature --- Poets [Insane ] --- Poètes aliénés --- Écrivains aliénés --- American prose literature --- Autobiography --- Literature and mental illness. --- Mentally ill women --- Mentally ill --- Psychiatric hospital patients --- Women and literature --- Women patients --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Biography --- In literature. --- History. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Geesteszieke vrouwen --- History

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Beginning with Victoria's enthronement and an exploration of sensationalist accounts of attacks on the Queen, and ending with the notorious case of a fin-de-siècle killer, Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation throws new light on nineteenth-century attitudes toward crime and 'deviance'. The essays, which draw on both canonical and liminal texts, examine the Victorian fascination with criminal psychology and pathology, engaging with real life cases alongside fictional accounts by writers as diverse as Ainsworth, Stevenson, and Stoker. Among the topics are shifting definitions of criminality and the ways in which discourses surrounding crime changed during the nineteenth century, the literal and social criminalization of particular sex acts, and the gendering of degeneration and insanity. As fascinated as they were with criminality, the Victorians were equally concerned with solving crime, and this collection also focuses on the forces of law enforcement and nineteenth-century attempts to "read" the criminal body as revealed in Victorian crime fiction and reportage. Contributors engage with the detective figure and his growing professionalization, while examining the role of science and technology - both at home and in the Empire - in solving cases.

Crime dans la litterature --- Crime in literature --- Criminals in literature --- Criminels dans la littérature --- Geesteszieken in de literatuur --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature --- Mentally ill in literature --- Misdaad in de literatuur --- Misdadigers in literatuur --- Sensatiezucht in de literatuur --- Sensationalism in literature --- Sensationnalisme dans la littérature --- Crime dans la littérature --- English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- English prose literature --- Detective and mystery stories [English ] --- Great Britain --- History --- Victoria, 1837-1901 --- Historiography --- Social conditions --- Crime --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- ROMAN A SENSATION --- CRIMES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MALADIES MENTALES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- SENSATIONNALISME DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period. This intensely poetic and solidly argued book is a rare source of "knowledge that it is sad to have to know." It focuses on the problematic relation of madness and God, discussing en route such topics as the double bind, black bile and melancholy, the Derrida-Foucault debate on writing (about) madness, Christian folly, "fine frenzy," shamanism, psychoanalysts on tragedy, St. Paul on God's "hardening the heart," links between madness and murder, pollution and syphilis, and the Irish for "mad."

Dieux grecs dans la littérature. --- Dieux --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama (Tragedy). --- Griechisch. --- Grieks. --- Literature and mental illness --- Literature and mental illness. --- Littérature et maladies mentales --- Littérature et maladies mentales. --- Malades mentaux dans la littérature. --- Maladies mentales --- Mentally ill in literature. --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Religious drama, Greek --- Religious drama, Greek. --- Théâtre grec. --- Tragedies. --- Tragédie grecque --- Tragödie. --- Waanzin. --- Wahn. --- Wahnsinn --- Wahnsinn. --- Dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Trauer, ... --- Abwasserzweckverband An der Trinkwassertalsperre Eibenstock. --- Greece.