Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry by Faas, Ekbert - 1988

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 312 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a tan dust jacket. Light wear to the book and jacket. Text is fresh and clean.

Princeton Univ Pr, 1989-02. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0691067481 Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, the author focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent to which early psychiatry shaped the poetry, poetics, and general frame of mind of the Victorians. 312pp.

U.S.A.: Princeton University Press. A beautifully clean, crisp, hardcover copy in fine condition. Fine DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1989.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ Pr, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 311 pages, light dust jacket edge wear and spine fade, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 457897

Hardback. Acceptable.

Princeton Univ Pr, 1989-02-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x10. Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, no scuffs, no cracks. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-297) and index. Contents; I. Dramatic or Psychological Monologue -- II. The New Mental Science -- III. The Psychological School of Poetry: Beginnings -- IV. The Psychological School of Poetry: Origins -- V. Precedents I: The Romantic ""Science of Feelings"" -- VI. Precedents II: Shakespeare -- VII. Dead End: Matthew Arnold -- VIII. The Psychological School of Poetry: Patterns -- IX. The Psychological School of Poetry: Contents -- X. Swinburne, or the Psychopathology of Poetic Creation -- Epilogue: Toward a Poete Maudit Aesthetic -- Appendix: Practitioners of the Dramatic Monologue Among Minor Victorian Poets. Subjects; 1800-1899. Dramatic monologue. Dramatic… Read More