This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book that approached Romanticism from an original psychoanalytic perspective by returning madness to its proper place ...

Seven professors of literature in Canadian universities contribute essays that examine English authors of the Romantic movement using historical, textual, and deconstructive methodologies.

Ross Woodman and Joel Faflak focus on the clash in British Romantic poets' works between depth psychology and mysticism in the context of post-Enlightenment crises of belief.