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Könyv Theaters of Madness Benjamin Reiss

Theaters of Madness

Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Szerző: Benjamin Reiss
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
15 432 Ft
In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded...

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Szerző
Benjamin Reiss
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2008
oldal
240
EAN
9780226709642
ISBN
0226709647
Enbook ID
04548711
Kiadó
The University of Chicago Press
Súly
402
Méretek
155 x 229 x 21

Teljes leírás

In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. "Theaters of Madness" explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum's place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity.Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture - from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare - into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, "Theaters of Madness" prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.

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