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

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Glavni autor: Reiss, Benjamin
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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  • 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.