Theaters of madness insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture /
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.