{"product_id":"creating-romantic-obsession-kathleen-bzsres-rogers-9783030139872","title":"Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era's anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley's 1818 \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein \u003c\/i\u003eand Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 \"The Tell Tale Heart\") and some not (like Charlotte Dacre's 1811 \u003ci\u003eThe Passions\u003c\/i\u003e and Charles Brockden Brown's 1787 \u003ci\u003eEdgar Huntly), \u003c\/i\u003ethe book looks at \"vigilia\", an overly intense curiosity, \"intellectual monomania\", an obsession with study, \"nymphomania\" and \"erotomania\", gendered forms of desire, \"revolutiana\", an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and \"ideality,\" an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Béres Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030139875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030139872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d","brand":"Kathleen Béres Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089048023295,"sku":"9783030139872","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_357aed5c-f637-46e3-9eb9-d2b7915bee53.jpg?v=1769107913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creating-romantic-obsession-kathleen-bzsres-rogers-9783030139872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}