Joe Lang in the room where The
Monomaniac will be performed, with a potential costume from Paxton House's collection
(A
Monomaniac) (Louisville, 1846); Nathan Morgan, A Full Report of the Trial of Orrin Woodford, for the Murder of His Wife, Diana Woodford (Hartford, 1846); The Confession of Adam Horn, alias Andrew Hellman (Baltimore, 1843); Trial of Captain John Windsor for the Murder of His Wife ([n.p.], 1851); "Trial of Willard Clark, Indicted for the Murder of Richard W-Wight," The American Journal of Insanity (Janurary, 1856): 212-37.
While Tuskegee was America's longest and most infamous example of distributive injustice in research, Washington cautions against a "
monomaniac" focus on this study.
It would also show that the
monomaniac obsession with football is a fad and not a permanent state, and the nation's sporting view needn't be so narrowly focused.
Irene Samson condemns him as an "egocentric
monomaniac" (250 cited in Wood 2001, 8).
Other approaches within this trend have been undertaken from historicist, social or gendered perspectives that, according to Cohen, have privileged anthropomorphic evaluations over the complex inner aesthetics of the films, consequently consolidating the dominant stereotyped canon of Hitchcock's works as merely propagandist,
monomaniac or misogynist.
But Dostoevsky's portrayal of the interior workings of the mind of an antisocial
monomaniac is razor sharp.
The country "ran wild with speculation that Gingles was an autohypnotist, a
monomaniac ...
Simon Bacamarte, the alienist, is an increasingly
monomaniac psychiatrist who tries to establish a positivistic system and research unit in an imaginary town called Itaguai.
Julia Prest deftly demonstrates that Le Malade imaginaire breaks new ground by blending
monomaniac and medicine in a joyful, healthy context.
Earlier we learn that Philip Aylwin, who helplessly watched his first beloved wife drown before his eyes, manifests in his bereavement an obsession with his dead partner: 'He was a
monomaniac, and all his thoughts in some way clustered around the dominant one' (p.
Thus his critics who call him a
monomaniac were in a measure right.
