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Item Details
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JOURNEYS INTO MADNESS
MAPPING MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE |
By: |
Gemma Blackshaw (Editor), Sabine Wieber (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£85.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0857454587 |
ISBN 13: |
9780857454584 |
Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
30 June, 2012 |
Series: |
Austrian and Habsburg Studies 14 |
Pages: |
222 |
Description: |
This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural, and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travelers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers, and royalty to tourists... |
Synopsis: |
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in 'Vienna 1900'. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Berghahn Books |
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