deadline for submissions: August 12, 2024 full name / name of organization: Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference, Boston, 2025 contact email: amendel@brandeis.edu In John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628), the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments, including…
CFP: Discourses of Madness
Discourses of Madness: Special Volume of Humanities Due Date: 06-30-2024 Today I felt pass over me a breath of wind from the wings of madness. —Charles Baudelaire Literary artists and textualists have long been fascinated by the alienated, the marginalized, the eccentric; intrigued, if not befuddled, by their nonconformity, their recalcitrance, their obstinate refusal to…
