Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
Series |
Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14 |
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Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
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Contents |
The mad objects of fin-de-siècle 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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Mental illness -- History
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Medicine in literature.
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Mental Disorders -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Medicine in Literature
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Mental Disorders -- epidemiology
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Mental Health Services -- history
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Mentally Ill Persons -- history
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HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.
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Medicine in literature
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Mental illness
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SUBJECT |
Austria-Hungary |
Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Blackshaw, Gemma
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Wieber, Sabine
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ISBN |
0857454587 |
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9780857454584 |
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0857454595 |
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9780857454591 |
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9781280876110 |
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1280876115 |
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