TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reiss,Benjamin
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Theaters of madness: insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture 
AV  - RC443 .R43 2008eb
U1  - 362.2/10973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Hospitals in literature
KW  - Mentally ill, Writings of the, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -