The madhouse of language : writing and reading madness in the eighteenth century
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The madhouse of language : writing and reading madness in the eighteenth century
Routledge, 1991
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Bibliography: p. 187-197
Includes index
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Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: to Build a House for Fools and Mad
- Chapter 2 The History of Silence
- Chapter 3 Cracks in the Walls
- Chapter 4 Borrowed Robes
- Chapter 5 The Struggle for Language
- Chapter 6 The Inner Voice
- Chapter 7 Rhyme and Reason
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