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Theaters of madness : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture
- Title
- Theaters of madness : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss.
- Author
- Reiss, Benjamin.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 237 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Psychiatric hospitals > United States > History > 19th century
- Psychiatric hospitals > Social aspects > History > United States > 19th century
- Hospitals in literature > History > 19th century
- Mentally ill, Writings of the, American > History and criticism
- Hospitals, Psychiatric > history > United States
- Medicine in Literature > United States
- Cultural Characteristics > United States
- History, 19th Century > United States
- Mentally Ill Persons > history > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-573
- ISBN
- 9780226709635 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226709639 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226709642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226709647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007043179
- 40015793990
- OCLC
- 176925190
- Author
- Reiss, Benjamin.
- Title
- Theaters of madness : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40015793990
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-573