Journeys into madness
Subtitle: mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary
By: edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies -- v. 14; Austrian and Habsburg studies -- v. 14.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780857454584; 9780857454591
Subjects: Mentally Ill Persons; Mental Health Services; Medicine in Literature; Epidemiology; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Mental Disorders; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mad objects of fin-de-siècle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp; title: Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller; title: Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley; title: Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie; title: Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward; title: Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber; title: Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw; title: Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities; title: Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton; title: Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger; title: The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.