Theaters of madness [electronic resource] : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xi, 237 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.2/10973 22
LOC classification:
  • RC443 .R43 2008eb
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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.
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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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