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Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire

Title
  1. Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber.
Published by
  1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Additional authors
  1. Blackshaw, Gemma.
  2. Wieber, Sabine.
Description
  1. viii, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14
Uniform title
  1. Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
Subject
  1. Mental illness > Austria > History
  2. Mental Disorders > history > Austria-Hungary
  3. History, 19th Century > Austria-Hungary
  4. History, 20th Century > Austria-Hungary
  5. Medicine in Literature > Austria-Hungary
  6. Mental Disorders > epidemiology > Austria-Hungary
  7. Mental Health Services > history > Austria-Hungary
  8. Mentally Ill Persons > history > Austria-Hungary
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 13-7224
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber.
Imprint
  1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Series
  1. Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14
  2. Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Blackshaw, Gemma.
  2. Wieber, Sabine.
LCCN
  1. 2011051803
Other standard identifier
  1. 40021149828
ISBN
  1. 9780857454584 (hardback : alk. paper)
  2. 0857454587 (hardback : alk. paper)
  3. 9780857454591 (ebook)
  4. 0857454595 (ebook)
Research call number
  1. JFE 13-7224
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