Madness in English-Canadian Fiction - ub-dok - Universität Trier

Content
1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................1
2. The Changing Faces of Madness..............................................................................7
2.1. Antiquity............................................................................................................7
2.2 The Middle Ages ..............................................................................................7
2.3. Humanism and the Age of Reason..............................................................9
2.4. Romanticism...................................................................................................12
2.5. The Victorian Age..........................................................................................13
2.6. Darwinism.......................................................................................................14
2.7. Freud and Psychoanalysis.............................................................................15
2.8. Schizophrenia and the Emergence of Antipsychiatry:
Laing and Foucault ........................................................................................17
2.9. The (Post-) Structuralist Approach to Madness:
Barthes, Derrida and Lacan ..........................................................................26
3. Colonial Madness .....................................................................................................38
3.1 The Chroniclers of Colonial Madness:
Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill .............................................38
3.2 Madness and Terror in the Garrison:
The Colonial Conflict and John Richardson's Wacousta .....................42
4. Pioneer and Plains Madness...................................................................................49
4.1 Moving Westward:
The Experience of the Plains........................................................................49
4.2. Dramatising the Experience:
Madness in Pioneer and Prairie Realism..................................................53
4.2.1 Laura Salverson's The Viking Heart............................................54
4.2.2 Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese ........................................................57
4.2.3 Frederick P. Grove's
Fruits of the Earth and Settler's of the Marsh.............................59
4.3. As Things Get Worse: ...................................................................................65
4.3.1 Sinclair Ross.......................................................................................65
4.3.1.1 "The Lamp at Noon"........................................................66
4.3.1.2 As For Me and My House................................................68
5. Madness as Sacrifice .................................................................................................77
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