List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Depression and Narrative
Hilary Clark
I. Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma
1. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions
Jennifer Radden
2. The Language of Madness: Representing Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind and Kate Millett’s The Loony-Bin Trip
Debra Beilke
3. Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression
Brenda Dyer
4. “Repenting Prodigal”: Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper’s Adelphi
Hilary Clark
5. Leonid Andreev’s Construction of Melancholy
Frederick H. White
II. Gender and Depression
6. Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Tracy Thompson
Suzanne England, Carol Ganzer, and Carol Tosone
7. “Addiction got me what I needed”: Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Memoirs
Joanne Muzak
8. Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression
Kimberly Emmons
9. Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression
Linda M. McMullen
III. Depression across the Media
10. A Dark Web:Depression, Writing, and the Internet
Kiki Benzon
11. A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film The Hours
Diane R. Wiener
12. Therapy Culture and TV: The Sopranos as a Depression Narrative
Deborah Staines
IV. Literary Therapies
13. For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant
Andrew Schonebaum
14. Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Mark A. Clark
V. Depression and the Limits of Narrative
15. Writing Self/Delusion:Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow
Sophie Blanch
16. Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History
Eluned Summers-Bremner
List of Contributors
Index
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