Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1999
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472024476
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/09/12
- Copyrighted By:
- University of Michigan
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Medicine
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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