{"product_id":"edgar-allan-poe-9781433149221","title":"Edgar Allan Poe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist\u003c\/em\u003e is the first and foremost major source of information dedicated to the theme of Poe and psychopathology. Its introduction, conclusion, chapters, and appendices highlight and employ the best insights from earlier and current scholars, but this text goes beyond them in its analysis of Poe's relation to mainstream psychology and its rival system, phrenology. His knowledge of this subject matter is far broader and deeper than Poe specialists have hitherto supposed; his methodcontrary to the Poe myth according to which an alcoholic, drug-addicted, tormented artist wrote to exorcise his own pathologieswas to research mental illnesses for the sake of scientific precision and verisimilitude. We also come to appreciate the interrelatedness of the psychopathologies he illustrates and other knowledge frames, characteristic themes, featured in his tales, such as the occult, symbology, chromatography, the cult of sensibility, Neoplatonism, and Trans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEdgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist\u003c\/i\u003e provides fascinating insight into Poe’s knowledge of the incipient fields of psychology and psychotherapy, sparking his creation of unforgettable narrators. Charting Poe’s evolving responses to phrenology and examining his acquaintance with mid-nineteenth-century mainstream theories and treatments of derangement, from monomania to schizophrenia to phobias, Brett Zimmerman offers brilliant analyses of Poe’s most memorable tales. The text is a seminal work for assessing Poe’s reactions to ideas about mental illness circulating during his lifetime.\" —\u003ci\u003eDr. Lynne Shackelford, Professor of English, Furman University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Appendices – List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Deeply in Need of Therapy: Catalepsy, Monomania, and Somnambulism in “Berenice” – Poe and the Phrenologists; or, The Head Masters of “Bumpology” – Method in His “Madness”: The Narrator of “Ligeia” – Sensibility, Phrenology, and Allegory: “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Why \u003ci\u003eWill \u003c\/i\u003eYou Say That I Am Mad?: Schizophrenia in “The Tell-Tale Heart” – The Devil Made Me Do It: Religious Mania in “The Black Cat” – Flooding, Phobias, and Psychosomatics: “The Premature Burial” – “Impulsive Insanity”: “The Imp of the Perverse” and the High Place Phenomenon  – Back to Bedlam: The Moral Treatment in “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” – Diagnosing Genius: Dupin and the Bipartite or Tripartite Theory of Mind – Conclusion – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039626068311,"sku":"9781433149221","price":73.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433149221.jpg?v=1750944299","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edgar-allan-poe-9781433149221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}