Journeys into madness [electronic resource] : mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber
- Published
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- viii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Blackshaw, Gemma and Wieber, Sabine
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- Contents
- The mad objects of fin-de-siècle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.
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- ISBN
- 9780857454584 (hardback : alk. paper)
0857454587 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857454591 (ebook)
0857454595 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-203) and index.
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