Theaters of madness [electronic resource] : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss.
By: Reiss, Benjamin.
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Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Psychiatric hospitals -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatric hospitals -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Hospitals in literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Mentally ill, Writings of the, American -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.2/10973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index.
Introduction: sanative culture -- Brothers and sisters of asylumia: literary life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum -- Saneface minstrelsy: blacking up in the asylum -- Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare and early psychiatry -- Emerson's close encounters with madness -- What's the point of a revolution?: Edgar Allan Poe and the origins of the asylum -- Out of the attic: gender, captivity, and asylum exposés.
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