Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

by Benjamin Reiss (Author), Benjamin Reiss (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

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  In the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.