Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature / Allen Thiher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Corporealities.

Corporealities : discourses of disability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and mental illness.

Mental illness in literature.

Mental illness--History.

Mental illness.

Psychiatry--History.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Part 1. Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

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

ISBN:

1-282-46312-8

1-283-51935-6

9786612463129

9786613831804

0-472-08999-4

OCLC:

923500541