Ross Woodman (1922–2014)
Author of Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism
About the Author
Works by Ross Woodman
Associated Works
Shelley's Poetry and Prose [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1977) — Contributor — 310 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Woodman, Ross
- Legal name
- Woodman, Ross Greig
- Birthdate
- 1922-11-28
- Date of death
- 2014-03-20
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Toronto (PhD)
University of Winnipeg (MA) - Occupations
- professor
literature scholar - Organizations
- University of Western Ontario
- Awards and honors
- Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award (1993)
- Relationships
- Woodman, Marion (wife)
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Port Williams, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Places of residence
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Place of death
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Associated Place (for map)
- Ontario, Canada
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Reviews
In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and that it has been likewise fundamental to the show more emergence of the modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye, madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are drawn from an earli...
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- Rating
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