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Author:

Reiss, Benjamin.

Title:

Theaters of madness : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--United States--History--19th century.
Hospitals in literature--History--19th century.
Mentally ill, Writings of the, American--History and criticism.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history--United States.
Medicine in Literature--United States.
Cultural Characteristics--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Mentally Ill Persons--history--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0226709647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226709642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226709639 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226709635 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)176925190

LCCN:

2007043179

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)