insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture Reiss, Benjamin. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ilu Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008 monographic eng

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xi, 237 p. : ill. 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. Benjamin Reiss. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-229) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- 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 RC443 .R43 2008eb 362.2/10973 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266049 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10266049 CaPaEBR 071019 ebr10266049