Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 5
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9781474418218.003.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474452519
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (278pp.) studies White’s entire oeuvre, including her unpublished diaries, more than forty notebooks dating from the 1920s through the 1970s that necessitated an extended period of archival research at her daughter’s residence in Italy. The diaries chart White’s search to understand what was undiagnosed bipolar disorder by using psychoanalytic and Catholic paradigms. Contextualising White’s writing within manic-depression and narrative identity, the monograph proposes a new model for reading White; documents the complex interplay of biological, psychological and environmental factors involved in affective disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White’s illness in medical, psychoanalytic and Catholic contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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