Madness in Fiction Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles /

• Main Author: Axelrod-Sokolov, Mark (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; America-Literatures.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.

This book examines one work from each of five prominent authors dealing with madness. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such as a historical moment, physic...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Mad Introduction, of Sorts
• 2. The Madness of Insult in Poe's Cask of Amontillado
• 3. The Madness of Starvation in Hamsun's Hunger
• 4. The Madness of Marginalization in Kafka's Metamorphosis
• 5. The Madness of Madness in Hesse's Steppenwolf
• 6. The Madness of Romantic Obsession in Fowles' The Collector
• 7. A Mad Ending, of Sorts.