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Revels in Madness : Insanity in Medicine and Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (363 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472024476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revels in MadnessDDC classification:
  • 809/.93353
LOC classification:
  • PN56
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 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.
Summary: 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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Intro -- 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 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.

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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