02164nam a22004214a 4500 ebr10266049 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071019s2008 ilua sb 001 0 eng 2007043179 GBA858759 bnb 101319035 DNLM 014595502 Uk 9780226709635 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226709639 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226709642 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226709647 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)309913416 n-us--- RC443 .R43 2008eb 362.2/10973 22 Reiss, Benjamin. Theaters of madness [electronic resource] : insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture / Benjamin Reiss. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. xi, 237 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Psychiatric hospitals United States History 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals Social aspects United States History 19th century. Hospitals in literature United States History 19th century. Mentally ill, Writings of the, American History and criticism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266049 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 11010 11010