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Edgar Allan Poe As Amateur Psychologist : A Companion Anthology by Brett Zimmerman (2021, Hardcover, New Edition)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-101433191210
ISBN-139781433191213
eBay Product ID (ePID)2321443849
Product Key Features
Number of Pages274 Pages
Publication NameEdgar Allan Poe As Amateur Psychologist : a Companion Anthology
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, German
Publication Year2021
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeLanguage Course
AuthorBrett Zimmerman
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-023673
Reviews"Zimmerman's anthology is a rich resource for students delving into the dark mental underground of Poe's characters. Many of these close readings are based on the history of the 'science of mind,' supplying a reservoir of terminology from the 1730s through the 1840s. These essays are instrumental in interpreting a world as unsettling as it is unknown to twenty-first-century readers. Tapping into modern psychological theory, other essays demonstrate Poe's prescience as a pioneer of psychopathology."--David E. E. Sloane, Professor of English, University of New Haven
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal818/.309
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments - Brett Zimmerman: Introduction - Phrenology - Edward Hungerford: Poe and Phrenology - Madeleine B. Stern: Poe: "The Mental Temperament" for Phrenologists - Donald B. Stauffer: Poe as Phrenologist: The Example of Monsieur Dupin Mainstream Psychology - William Whipple: Poe's Two- Edged Satiric Tale ["The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"] - Allan Gardner Lloyd- Smith (Allan Smith): The Psychological Context of Three Tales by Poe - Elizabeth C. Phillips: Mere Household Events: The Metaphysics of Mania - Paige Matthey Bynum: "Observe How Healthily-- How Calmly I Can Tell You the Whole Story": Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell- Tale Heart" - John Cleman: Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense - Vicki Hester and Emily Segir: "The Black Cat" and Current Forensic Psychology - Lynne Piper Shackelford: "Infected by Superstitions": Folie à Deux in "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Susan Scheckel: Home- Sickness, Nostalgia, and Therapeutic Narrative in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Brett Zimmerman: Charley Goodfellow as Psychopathic Personality in "Thou Art the Man" - The Psychosomatic - I. M. Walker: The "Legitimate Sources" of Terror in "The Fall of the House of Usher" - David W. Butler: Usher's Hypochondriasis: Mental Alienation and Romantic Idealism in Poe's Gothic Tales - George R. Uba: Malady and Motive: Medical History and "The Fall of the House of Usher" - Index.
SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection is a companion to its predecessor, Zimmerman's Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist (2019); it gathers the most important essays by authors--Hungerford, Stauffer, Stern, Bynum, Cleman, Hester and Segir, Phillips, Shackelford, Scheckel, Lloyd-Smith, Whipple, Butler, Uba, Walker, Zimmerman, Locating Poe firmly within his Zeitgeist vis-à-vis the science and pseudoscience of the early nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist: A Companion Anthology simultaneously looks back from the 1830s and 1840s (when his literary career was at its height) to eighteenth-century theories and sources of information on mental illness, as well as forward to our own time to demonstrate how Poe's dramatizations of psychological diseases occasionally anticipate modern nosological classifications and twenty-first-century forensic research. This interdisciplinary collection is a companion to its predecessor, Zimmerman's Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist (Peter Lang, 2019); it gathers the most important essays by authors--Hungerford, Stauffer, Stern, Bynum, Cleman, Hester and Segir, Phillips, Shackelford, Scheckel, Lloyd-Smith, Whipple, Butler, Uba, Walker, Zimmerman--who employ historicist and history-of-ideas methodologies. Topics include Poe's use of and eventual disillusionment with phrenology; his attitude toward the controversial "moral treatment" of the insane as well as the "insanity defense" and its connection with the new theory of "moral insanity"; the possible sources of his knowledge of theories of mind, psychopathology and related therapies; his evolution as an amateur psychologist; the connection between physiological sickness and mental distress (the psychosomatic); and the ways in which the psychological profiles of his homicidal characters look forward to modern serial killers. This companion anthology represents a significant addition to Poe scholarship and will be of interest not only to Poe specialists but also to students, teachers, and any intelligent reader interested in the history of ideas and the intersection between literature and "mental philosophy."
LC Classification NumberPS2642.P74Z65 2021
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