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Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire
- Title
- Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14
- Uniform Title
- Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
- Subjects
- Mental Disorders > epidemiology > Austria-Hungary
- Mental Health Services > history > Austria-Hungary
- Mental illness > Austria > History
- History, 20th Century > Austria-Hungary
- History, 19th Century > Austria-Hungary
- Mental Disorders > history > Austria-Hungary
- Mentally Ill Persons > history > Austria-Hungary
- Medicine in Literature > Austria-Hungary
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The mad objects of fin-de-siècle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7224
- ISBN
- 9780857454584 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0857454587 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780857454591 (ebook)
- 0857454595 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2011051803
- 40021149828
- OCLC
- 768168249
- Title
- Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber.
- Imprint
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Blackshaw, Gemma.Wieber, Sabine.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021149828
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7224