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Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness - Language, Discourse and Mental Health
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness - Language, Discourse and Mental Health
This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 9, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9781804132258 |
| Publishers | University of Exeter Press |
| Pages | 302 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 20 mm · 492 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Gammelgaard, Lasse R. |