Download or read book Affective Disorder and the Writing Life written by S. Stone Horton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.