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

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Huvudupphov: Reiss, Benjamin
Institutionellt upphov: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Ämnen:
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.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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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