| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 213 p. : ill., map. |
| Series |
Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14 |
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Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Austria -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Austria -- History.
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Mental health services -- Austria -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Blackshaw, Gemma.
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Wieber, Sabine.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780857454584 (hardback alk. paper) |
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9780857454591 (electronic bk.) |
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