Revels in Madness

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

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Full title :Revels in Madness.

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

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Publication Date:2004.

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Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Description:1 online resource (363 pages)

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ISBN:9780472024476, 0472024477
oclc:ocn923500541
LC Classification:PN56.M45.T53 1999eb
Dewey Decimal:809/.93353

""Contents""; ""Part 1. Madness from Hippocrates to HÃ¶lderlin""; ""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 Psychoanalysis""""Chapter 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""

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