How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Depression and Narrative | |
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| Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma | |
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| My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions | |
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| The Language of Madness: Representing Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Kate Millett's The Loony-Bin Trip | |
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| Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression | |
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| "Repenting Prodigal": Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper's Adelphi | |
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| Leonid Andreev's Construction of Melancholy | |
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| Gender and Depression | |
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| Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Tracy Thompson | |
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| "Addiction got me what I needed": Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Memoirs | |
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| Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression | |
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| Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression | |
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| Depression across the Media | |
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| A Dark Web: Depression, Writing, and the Internet | |
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| A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film The Hours | |
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| Therapy Culture and TV: The Sopranos as a Depression Narrative | |
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| Literary Therapies | |
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| For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant | |
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| Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | |
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| Depression and the Limits of Narrative | |
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| Writing Self/Delusion: Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The Shutter of Snow | |
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| Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Index | |
