Thiher, Allen. <br/><br/>
Revels in Madness :  Insanity in Medicine and Literature. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (363 pages) 
 - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series .
 - Corporealities: Discourses of Disability Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472024476 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature and mental illness.<br/>Mental illness in literature.<br/>Mental illness -- History.<br/>Psychiatry -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.93353