Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary / / edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber.
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| Superior document: | Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Austrian and Habsburg studies ;
v. 14. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 213 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- The mad objects of fin-de-siecle 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.