monomania

• “It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.”

  The Count of Monte Cristo

• ““He never could be cured, the doctors said, for he had what they called monomania, — was always talking about his wife and darter that somebody had stole away years ago, and plannin 'revenge on that somebody.”

  Mrs. Skaggs's husbands, and other sketches

• “He never could be cured, the doctors said, for he had what they called monomania, -- was always talking about his wife and darter that somebody had stole away years ago, and plannin 'revenge on that somebody.”

  Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

• “The verdict of literary criticism is that of the medical art -- he was insane; and to what extent this mania acted as a monomania, that is, how far he was himself deceived, the world can never know.”

  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

• “And his monomania was the ruin of this woman who had taken from him in the very moment of consummation all that he had ever really loved in the world -- a thin, awkward, freckled, red-haired country girl, in whom, for the first and only time in all his life, he saw the vague and phantom promise of that trinity which he had never known -- a wife, a child, and a home.”

  The Dark Star

• “Coincidently, Female Science Professor posted today about her disagreement with a colleague who wanted his female grad students to exhibit more "monomania" towards science.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “This is not a particularly original argument, although in Mr. Freeman's case it becomes a kind of monomania, in which Israel is always the warmonger, always slapping away Arab hands extended in peace.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Obama's National Intelligence Crackpot

• “Not because of Wright's "monomania" (to use another canard from Stanley's article), but because liberals and Democrats are too ashamed of their own slightly crazed grandpas-in-the-attic to understand how important it is to defend them (needless to say, GOPers understand very well).”

  Hullabaloo

• “Wilma, temperamental and overworked, had let it become a kind of monomania with her.”

  A Busy Year at the Old Squire's

• “There are grounds, however, for doubting whether Shelley was not subject to a kind of monomania upon this and similar points.”

  A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

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