Reiss, Benjamin. <br/><br/>
Theaters of madness  insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture /  [electronic resource] : 
Benjamin Reiss. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2008. 
 - xi, 237 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA858759  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> DNLM  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychiatric hospitals--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Psychiatric hospitals--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Hospitals in literature--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Mentally ill, Writings of the, American--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC443  / .R43 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.2/10973