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To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. Ranging from ancient Greek myth and tragedy to contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama, Professor Feder shows how literary interpretations of madness, as well as madness itself, reflect the very cultural assumptions, values, and prohibitions they challenge.

Psychological study of literature --- Mental illness in literature --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Mental illness in literature. --- Aeschylus. --- Bartholomaeus Anglicus. --- Bedlam. --- Boethius. --- Burton, Robert. --- Cassandra. --- Clytemnestra. --- Dionysus. --- Euripides. --- Freud, Sigmund. --- Galen. --- God. --- Jesus Christ. --- Kirk, Geoffrey. --- Kris, Ernst. --- Lavater, Ludwig. --- Malleus Maleficarum. --- Muir, Kenneth. --- Nietzsche, Freidrich Wilhelm. --- Odysseus. --- Ogun. --- Pentheus. --- Pinel, Philippe. --- Soyinka, Wole. --- Tiresias. --- abandonment. --- aggression. --- animals. --- cannibalism. --- conscience. --- dance. --- death. --- dreams. --- ego. --- fantasies. --- hallucinations. --- humors. --- imagination. --- infanticide. --- instinctual drives. --- justice. --- love. --- repression. --- schizophrenia. --- vapors. --- European literature --- Comparative literature --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- Themes, motives. --- Literature, Comparative --- Themes, motives