Journeys into madness

Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary / [electronic resource] : edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber. - 1st ed. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2012. - viii, 213 p. : ill., map. - Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14 . - Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle 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.


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Mental illness--History.--Austria
Mentally ill--History.--Austria
Mental health services--History.--Austria


Electronic books.

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