Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism

Product description Review 'Sanity, Madness, Transformation is a theoretical landmark, a work of genius and importance that shows how high Romantic poetry creates psychoanalysis, how there is more to that creation than Freud, and how understanding its healing power is essential to the continuation of our species and our world. Much can be said about the beauties of Woodman's writing and his incredible theoretical insights. This book is simply stellar.'--Laura C. Mandell, Department of English, Miami University'Sanity, Madness, Transformation is a searching, intelligent, and relentlessly interrogative book brimming with gorgeous and densely forceful analyses of Romantic theory and critical practice. Grounded in elegant and original readings, Ross Woodman's work is an illuminating, attractive, and involving meditation on its own contemporaneity, written with constant reference to what critical thought is here and now. This is a Biographia Literaria for the twenty-first century.'--David L. Clark, Department of English, McMaster University About the Author Ross Woodman is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.