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In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of incipient psychological exploration anticipating more sophisticated discoveries in the science of the mind. Romantic Psychoanalysis challenges this assumption by treating psychoanalysis in the Romantic period as a discovery unto itself, a way of taking Freud back to his future. Reading Romantic literature against eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, Faflak contends that Romantic poetry and prose—including works by Coleridge, De Quincey, Keats, and Wordsworth—remind a later psychoanalysis of its fundamental matrix in phantasy and thus of its profoundly literary nature.

English literature --- Romanticism --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Psychoanalytic Interpretation --- Poetry as Topic --- Literature, Modern --- Psychoanalysis --- Literature --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry --- Humanities --- Behavioral Sciences --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literatures --- Psychodynamic Analysis --- Analyses, Psychodynamic --- Analysis, Psychodynamic --- Psychodynamic Analyses --- Modern Literature --- Interpretation, Psychoanalytic --- Psychoanalytical Interpretation --- Interpretation, Psychoanalytical --- Interpretations, Psychoanalytic --- Interpretations, Psychoanalytical --- Psychoanalytic Interpretations --- Psychoanalytical Interpretations --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Proxemics --- Behavioral Science --- Proxemic --- Science, Behavioral --- Sciences, Behavioral --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Psychiatrists --- Psychiatrist --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Wordsworth, William, --- De Quincey, Thomas, --- Keats, John, --- Kēts, Tzōn, --- Kits, Dzhon, --- Kʻichʻŭ, --- Quincey, Thomas de, --- De Kvinsi, Tomas, --- Kvinsi, Tomas de, --- De Quincy, Thomas, --- Quincy, Thomas de, --- DeQuincey, Thomas, --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- キーツ, ジョン

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"In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and that it has been likewise fundamental to the emergence of the modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye, madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are drawn from an earlier Romantic ambivalence about madness." "This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book of original compositions that approach Romanticism from a unique analytic perspective by returning madness to its proper place in the creative psyche. Sanity, Madness, Transformation is a provocative hybrid of theory, literary criticism, and autobiography and is yet another decisive step in a distinguished academic career."--Jacket.

English poetry --- Literature and mental illness. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Romanticism --- Littérature et maladies mentales. --- Poésie anglaise --- Psychanalyse et littérature. --- Romantisme --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Wordsworth, William, --- Blake, William, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sheli, Persi Bish, --- Hsüeh-lai, --- Hermit of Marlow, --- Marlow, --- Victor, --- Shelli, Persi-Bishi, --- Šéli, Pérsi Ba, --- Shilī, --- Shelley, P. B. --- Selley, Persy Byss, --- Shelli, P., --- Шелли, Перси Биши, --- שלי, פרסי ביש --- שלי, פרסי ביש, --- שעלי, פוירסי --- شلي --- Śeli, Pārsi Bīśa, --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם --- בלייק, ויליאם --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales

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Ross Woodman's Sanity, Madness, Transformation was an adventurous exploration of the links between madness in Romantic writing and modern literary and psychoanalytic theory. Revelation and Knowledge picks up where his previous work left off by tracing the profound connections and gaps between religious and poetic faith in the works of the British Romantic poets.Woodman and Joel Faflak focus on the clash in these authors' works between depth psychology and mysticism in the context of post-Enlightenment crises of belief. They also delve into the treatment of revelation in Romantic poetry, expanding on the concept through nuanced examinations of specific Eastern and Western religious traditions. Revelation and Knowledge showcases Woodman's trademark ability to combine literary criticism with autobiography, resulting in a surprising work that is also uniquely daring.

English poetry --- Religion and literature --- Religion in literature. --- Revelation in literature. --- Romanticism --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- History and criticism. --- History --- Moral and religious aspects --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra

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Civilization, Modern, in literature --- Prophecy in literature --- Apocalypse in literature --- Blake, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Disasters in literature

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Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways—as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured—this nervousness, both about and of the Romantics, is an important though as yet unaddressed concern in Victorian responses to Romantic texts. By attending to this nervousness, the essays in this volume offer a new consideration not only of the relationship between the Victorian and Romantic periods, but also of the ways in which our own responses to Romanticism have been mediated by this Victorian attention to Romantic excitability.Considering editions and biographies as well as literary and critical responses to Romantic writers, the volume addresses a variety of discursive modes and genres, and brings to light a number of authors not normally included in the longstanding category of "Victorian Romanticism": on the Romantic side, not just Wordsworth, Keats, and P. B. Shelley but also Byron, S. T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and on the Victorian side, not just Thomas Carlyle and the Brownings but also Sara Coleridge, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Archibald Lampman, and J. S. Mill.Contributors include D. M. R. Bentley, Kristen Guest, Joel Faflak, Grace Kehler, Donelle Ruwe, Alan Vardy, Lisa Vargo, Timothy J. Wandling, Joanne Wilkes, and Julia M. Wright.

Romanticism --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature