The Sense and Sensibility of Madness ― Disrupting Normalcy in Literature and the Arts

This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.

Anna Klambauer is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Graz. Currently her research is dedicated to the exploration of madness in Anglophone fiction. She has published and edited many articles on the subject of madness, including Muses, Mystics, Madness: The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016). Doreen Bauschke earned a PhD in American literature in 2013 with the dissertation titled Quilt(ed) Texts: The Patchwork Quilt in Contemporary North American Novels at the Friedrich Schiller Universitat in Jena, Germany, where she has taught on intertextuality and hypertextuality. She is currently pursuing a degree in education.