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Theaters of madness (Record no. 11010)

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fixed length control field 02164nam a22004214a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 362.2/10973
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Reiss, Benjamin.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Theaters of madness
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Chicago :
Name of publisher University of Chicago Press,
Year of publication 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xi, 237 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: sanative culture -- Brothers and sisters of asylumia: literary life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum -- Saneface minstrelsy: blacking up in the asylum -- Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare and early psychiatry -- Emerson's close encounters with madness -- What's the point of a revolution?: Edgar Allan Poe and the origins of the asylum -- Out of the attic: gender, captivity, and asylum expos�es.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Psychiatric hospitals
Topical Term Psychiatric hospitals
Topical Term Hospitals in literature
Topical Term Mentally ill, Writings of the, American
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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