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Recent Work in Renaissance Studies: Psychology Did Madness Have a Renaissance

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Carol Thomas Neely
Carol Thomas Neely*
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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All the terms in the title of the plenary session, “Recent Work in Renaissance Studies on Psychology,” at the Renaissance Society of America's 1991 annual meeting (where this paper was first delivered) are matters of conflict and debate. In this discussion I shall examine current debates about the “Renaissance,” “psychology,” and “madness” to account for the paucity and insufficiency of current work on early modern madness by historians and literary critics and theorists, to raise issues about current trends in Renaissance studies, and to elicit new kinds of scholarship.

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From the 1991 National Conference
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , Winter 1991 , pp. 776 - 791
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1991

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