Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work /: the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey Berman.
• Authors: Berman, Jeffrey, 1945-
• Contents: Introduction: Out of the Closet to Bear Witness Chapter 1. "The Landscape of Depression"; William Styron and Darkness Visible Chapter 2. "My Proclaimed Sanity and My Conjectured Madness"; Kate Millett and The Loony-Bin Trip Chapter 3. "A Strange and Driving Force, a Destroyer, a Fire in the Blood"; Kay Redfield Jamison and An Unquiet Mind Chapter 4. "For Better or Worse You Inherit Me"; Linda Gray Sexton and Searching for Mercy Street and Half in Love Chapter 5. "Truth Is Bendable"; Lauren Slater and Lying Chapter 6. "I Cannot Separate Her Homophobia from My Own"; Andrew Solomon and The Noonday Demon Chapter 7. "Someone Acts Through My Brain"; Elyn R. Saks and The Center Cannot Hold Conclusion: The Challenges of Reading Mad Memoirs.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 808.06692; Autobiography -- Authorship; Authors -- Mental health; Literature and mental illness
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789738094; 9781789738070
• Related ISBNs: 9781789738100
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.