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

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Autor Principal:	Reiss, Benjamin
Autor Corporativo:	ebrary, Inc
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	inglés
Publicado:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Psychiatric hospitals > United States > History > 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century. Hospitals in literature > United States > History > 19th century. Mentally ill, Writings of the, American > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Acceso en liña:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.