{"product_id":"affective-disorder-and-the-writing-s-stone-horton-9781137381651","title":"Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse","description":"How does affective madness influence the social understanding of writers and other artists, or shape the creative act itself? In a 15-year longitudinal study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a study little known outside of psychiatry, 80 per cent of the writers reported either living with, or having had a lifetime incidence of, an affective disorder (depression or manic depression), as opposed to only 30 per cent of non-writer controls. Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the age-old mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection, and contemporary neuroscience. These essays explore how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Stone Horton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137381655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137381651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave Pivot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"S. Stone Horton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063745736959,"sku":"9781137381651","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26911c4b-ac18-4b72-b626-694191ea0243.jpg?v=1685391399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affective-disorder-and-the-writing-s-stone-horton-9781137381651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}