Theaters of madness insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture /

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Main Author: Reiss, Benjamin
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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245 1 0 |a Theaters of madness  |h [electronic resource] :  |b insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture /  |c Benjamin Reiss. 
260 |a Chicago :  |b University of Chicago Press,  |c 2008. 
300 |a xi, 237 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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