Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France
Book Description
Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, L�lut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (Balzac, Nerval,... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Hardcover |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 304 |
ISBN-10 | 0198151888 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0198151883 |
Publication Date | 01/25/1996 |
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