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Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Allen Thiher
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"Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."
---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism
"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of early modern authors such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes, and on to German Romantic philosophy, fin de siècle French poetry, and Freud . . . Artaud, Duras, and Plath."
---Isis
"This provocative and closely argued work will reward many readers."
---Choice
In Revels in Madness, Allen Thiher surveys a remarkable range of writers as he shows how conceptions of madness in literature have reflected the cultural assumptions of their era. Thiher underscores the transition from classical to modern theories of madness-a transition that began at the end of the Enlightenment and culminates in recent women's writing that challenges the postmodern understanding of madness as a fall from language or as a dysfunction of culture.
---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism
"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging from madness in the ancient Greco-Roman world, to Christianized concepts of medieval folly, through the writings of early modern authors such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes, and on to German Romantic philosophy, fin de siècle French poetry, and Freud . . . Artaud, Duras, and Plath."
---Isis
"This provocative and closely argued work will reward many readers."
---Choice
In Revels in Madness, Allen Thiher surveys a remarkable range of writers as he shows how conceptions of madness in literature have reflected the cultural assumptions of their era. Thiher underscores the transition from classical to modern theories of madness-a transition that began at the end of the Enlightenment and culminates in recent women's writing that challenges the postmodern understanding of madness as a fall from language or as a dysfunction of culture.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Part 1. Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin
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Chapter 1. Discourses on Madness in the Greco-Roman World
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Chapter 2. Continuities and Ruptures in Medieval Folly
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Chapter 3. Madness and Early Modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes
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Chapter 4. The latro-Mechanical Era and the Madness of Machines
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Chapter 5. Neoclassicism, the Rise of Singularity, and Moral Treatment
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Part 2. The Modernity of Madness
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Chapter 6. The German Romantics and the Invention of Psychiatry
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Chapter 7. Pathological Anatomy and the Poetics of Madness
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Chapter 8. Modern Determinations of Insanity: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
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Chapter 9. Modernist Poetic Discourses in Madness
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Chapter 10. The Contemporary Scene's Affirmation of and Rebellion against Logos
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Postscript: Madness between History and Neurology
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Notes
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Index
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Published: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-08999-4 (paper)
- 978-0-472-11035-3 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02447-6 (ebook)