Creating romantic obsession : scorpions in the mind / Kathleen Béres Rogers.

Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Scorpions in the Mind; Part I: Origins-Demonic Possession; Part II: Proto-Psychology; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Vigilia and the Science of the Mind in William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker; Part I: The Vigil: Wakeful Curiosity; Part II: A "Restless Propensity": Curiosity in Caleb Williams; Part III: "A Mind Sorely Wounded": Somnambulism and Edgar Huntly; Bibliography

Chapter 3 Intellectual Monomania and Enthusiasm in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma CourtneyPart I: Enthusiasm; Part II: Intellectual Monomania; Part III: Monstrous Associationism and the Science of the Mind; Bibliography; Chapter 4 The Stings of Love: Erotomania and Nymphomania in John Keats's Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and Charlotte Dacre's The Passions; Part I: Nymphomania and Erotomania; Part II: The Violent Woman and the Passive Man-Dacre's Passions; Part III: Basil and Obsession; Bibliography

Chapter 5 Revolutiana and the Sublime in George Gleig's Subaltern, Lord Byron's Siege of Corinth, and Joanna Baillie's Count BasilPart I: The Subaltern; Part II: War as Spectacle; Part III: Make Love, Not War; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Ideality and Art in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"; Part I: "The Fiends That Plague Thee Thus"-Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Part II: "Des Idees"-The Horror of Ideality in Edgar Allan Poe; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Coda: From Scorpions to Spiders in A.S. Byatt's Possession

Part I: "A Little OCD"Part II: Obsessed; Part III: The Good Scholar: Byatt's Possession; Part IV: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index