Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind

1. Introduction: Scorpions in the Mind.- 2. Vigilia and the Science of the Mind in William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or Memories of a Sleepwalker .- 3. Intellectual Monomania and Enthusiasm in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney .- 4. The Stings of Love: Erotomania and Nymphomania in John Keats's Isabella, or The Pot of Basil and Charlotte Dacre's The Passions .- 5. Revolutiana and the Sublime in George Gleig's Subaltern , Lord Byron's Siege of Corinth , and Joanna Baillie's Count Basil .- 6. Ideality and Art in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Edgar Allen Poe's "Berenice" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".- 7. Coda: From Scorpions to Spiders, A.S. Byatt's Possession .