Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse

Horton, S. Stone

Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.

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Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2013-11-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137381651

DOI: 10.1057/9781137381668

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 145