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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456087703321

Autore

Thiher Allen <1941->

Titolo

Revels in madness [[electronic resource] ] : insanity in medicine and literature / / Allen Thiher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c1999

ISBN

1-282-46312-8

1-283-51935-6

9786612463129

9786613831804

0-472-08999-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Corporealities : discourses of disability

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Literature and mental illness

Mental illness in literature

Mental illness - History

Psychiatry - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part 1. Madness from Hippocrates to HoĢˆlderlin; Chapter 1. Discourses on Madness in the Greco-Roman World; Chapter 2. Continuities and Ruptures in Medieval Folly; Chapter 3. Madness and Early Modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes; Chapter 4. The latro-Mechanical Era and the Madness of Machines; Chapter 5. Neoclassicism, the Rise of Singularity, and Moral Treatment; Part 2. The Modernity of Madness; Chapter 6. The German Romantics and the Invention of Psychiatry; Chapter 7. Pathological Anatomy and the Poetics of Madness

Chapter 8. Modern Determinations of Insanity: Psychiatry and PsychoanalysisChapter 9. Modernist Poetic Discourses in Madness; Chapter 10. The Contemporary Scene's Affirmation of and Rebellion against Logos; Postscript: Madness between History and Neurology; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present