Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture /

Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture / / Ilya Vinitsky, Angela Brintlinger.

The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia?s troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological ma...

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Brintlinger, Angela,
Vinitsky, Ilya,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction: Approaching Russian Madness / Brintlinger, Angela
  • PART ONE. Madness, the State, and Society
  • 1. A Cheerful Empress and Her Gloomy Critics: Catherine the Great and the Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Controversy / Vinitsky, Ilya
  • 2. The Osvidetel'stvovanie and Ispytanie of Insanity: Psychiatry in Tsarist Russia / Iangoulova, Lia
  • 3. Madness as an Act of Defence of Personality in Dostoevsky's The Double / Dryzhakova, Elena
  • 4. Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian Intelligentsia, and Fan Hysteria / Wessling, Robert D.
  • 5. On Hostile Ground: Madness and Madhouse in Joseph Brodsky's 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' / Loseff, Lev
  • PART TWO. Madness, War, and Revolution
  • 6. The Concept of Revolutionary Insanity in Russian History / Miller, Martin A.
  • 7. The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914-1918 / Sirotkina, Irina
  • 8. Lives Out of Balance: The 'Possible World' of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s / Pinnow, Kenneth
  • 9. Early Soviet Forensic Psychiatric Approaches to Sex Crime, 1917-1934 / Healey, Dan
  • PART THREE. Madness and Creativity
  • 10. Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry, 1887-1907 / Brintlinger, Angela
  • 11. 'Let Them Go Crazy': Madness in the Works of Chekhov / Odesskaya, Margarita
  • 12. The Genetics of Genius: V.P. Efroimson and the Biosocial Mechanisms of Heightened Intellectual Activity / Howell, Yvonne
  • 13. Madwomen without Attics: The Crazy Creatrix and the Procreative Iurodivaia / Goscilo, Helena
  • 14. A 'New Russian' Madness? Fedor Mikhailov's Novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov's Film Daun Khaus / Rogachevskii, Andrei
  • 15. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method / Epstein, Mikhail
  • Afterword / Brown, Julie V.
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors

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