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

Author/creator Reiss, Benjamin
Other author ProQuest (Firm)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Descriptionxi, 237 pages : illustrations
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007043179

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