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

Author/creator Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.
Description354 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Literature and mental illness.
Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness--History.
Psychiatry--History.

SeriesCorporealities : discourses of disability
Corporealities. ^A437391
Contents Madness from Hippocrates to Hølderlin -- Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world -- Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly -- Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes -- The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines -- Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment -- Part the modernity of madness -- The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry -- Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness -- Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis -- Modernist poetic discourse in madness -- The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos -- Postscript: madness between history and neurology -- Notes -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.
LCCN 99006460
ISBN0472110357 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PN56.M45 T53 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold