About the Author

Marina Van Zuylen is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She is the author of Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle.

Reviews

"Monomania is highly original, deeply learned, intelligent, and thoughtful. It is also engagingly and agreeably written. Marina van Zuylen fruitfully combines psychological and literary issues, achieving a balance between attention to specific authors and a strong central argument. She successfully brings together the inner problematics of literature-the act of writing, the choice of the writing life, the investment in form and style-and the literary imagination of the psychology of human thought and behavior. William Paulson, author of Literary Culture in a World Transformed: A Future for the Humanities"