Affective Disorder and the Writing Life

Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: "COULD IT BE MADNESS, THIS?" AFFECTIVE DIFFERENCE AND THE WORK OF COMPOSITION 1. 'What Ceremony of Words Can Patch the Havoc?': Writing, Madness, and Neurodiversity; Stephanie Stone Horton 2. Muse Afire: Negotiating the Line Between Creative Pursuit and Mental Illness; Nancer Ballard 3. After the Fire Goes Out: Writing Before and After Treatment for Affective Disorder; Lise Bagoley 4. Gaps on the Vita; Sharon O'Brien 5. Lunatic; Jeannie Parker Beard PART II: "THEIR LIVES A STORM WHEREON THEY RIDE": AFFECTIVE (DIS)ORDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION 6. Axing the Frozen Sea: Female Inscriptions of Madness; Joann K. Deiudicibus 7. The Things We Carry: Embodied Truth and Tim O' Brien's Poetics of Despair; David Bahr 8. 'The Incessant Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise': Virginia Woolf's Treading the Waves; Jessica De Santa 9. The Fire, The Dark, and the Beautiful Distance; Stephen Newton