How Long to Read Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

How Long Does it Take to Read Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France by Tony James

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Description

This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of nineteenth-century European, and specifically French, thought. The meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism, ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish) preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. In this path-breaking cross-disciplinary study, Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in fact mad? Might dream be a source of creativity, rather than a merely subsidiary, 'automatic' function? What of lucid dreaming? By exploring these questions, Dreams, Madness, and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century France makes good a considerable gap in the history of pre-Freudian psychology and sheds new and fascinating light on the central French writers of the period.

How long is Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France?

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France by Tony James is 322 pages long, and a total of 81,144 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 23 minutes to read Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France aloud.

What Reading Level is Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France?

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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