Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture)

저자
Reiss, Benjamin/ /
출판사
University of Chicago Press
출판일
20210101
ISBN
9780226709642
ISBN 등록 지역
영어권 (ISBN 978-0)

소개

In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.