Theaters of madness insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / by Reiss, Benjamin

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.…”
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's allegory of despair -- When fiction becomes reality: Authorial voice in the door in the floor, secret window, and swimming pool -- The "very simplicity of the thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. Fletcher, and Murder, she wrote -- Changing faces: Dr. …”
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