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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826285703321

Autore

Topp Leslie <1969->

Titolo

Freedom and the cage : modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / / Leslie Topp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-07920-7

0-271-07922-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages :) : illustrations, maps ;

Collana

Buildings, landscapes, and societies

Disciplina

725.52094

Soggetti

Hospital architecture - Europe, Central - History - 19th century

Psychiatric hospitals - Europe, Central - Design and construction - History - 20th century

Psychiatric hospitals - Europe, Central - Design and construction - History - 19th century

Hospital architecture - Europe, Central - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The free institution -- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project -- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control -- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland -- Spaces -- Boundaries.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--