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1 online resource (354 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Corporealities
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Corporealities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index. |
| Contents |
Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin -- Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world -- Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly -- Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes -- The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines -- Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment -- Part the modernity of madness -- The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry -- Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness -- Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis -- Modernist poetic discourse in madness -- The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos -- Postscript: madness between history and neurology -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Revels in Madness offers a history of Western culture's shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge. The book traces the period from the development of Greek medicine, and of Greek tragedy and comedy, to contemporary representations of madness as shaped by modern psychiatry and psychoanalysis and as portrayed in literature. It surveys a remarkable range of writers, including Cervantes, Nerval, Rimbaud, Holderlin, Charcot, Freud, and Kraepelin." "This book will interest those intrigued by the relationship between culture, medicine, and literature, both in the history of medicine and literature and in literary depictions of cognitive disabilities. Students of comparative literature or the history of science, as well as doctors, therapists, and those interested in clinical psychology, will also benefit from reading this book."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and mental illness.
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Literature and mental illness. |
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Mental illness in literature.
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Mental illness in literature. |
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Mental illness -- History.
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Mental illness. |
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History. |
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Psychiatry -- History.
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Psychiatry. |
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Medicine in Literature. |
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Mental Disorders. |
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Psychiatry -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thiher, Allen, 1941- Revels in madness. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999 0472110357 (DLC) 99006460 (OCoLC)41337974 |
| ISBN |
9780472089994 (electronic book) |
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0472089994 (electronic book) |
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0472110357 |
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9780472110353 |
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0472089994 |
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9780472024476 |
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