Journeys Into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire by

Description: Journeys Into Madness by Gemma Blackshaw, Sabine Wieber 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 of modern times. The travelers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers, and royalty to tourists... FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freuds 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 characters 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 of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in Vienna 1900. Author Biography Gemma Blackshaw is Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 2009–10) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue. Table of Contents Note on ContributorsIntroduction Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine WieberChapter 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition "Madness and Modernity"Leslie ToppChapter 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of MadnessSteven BellerChapter 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahlers ViennaGavin PlumleyChapter 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous DisordersNicola ImrieChapter 5. Travel to the Spas: the Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914Jill StewardChapter 6. Viennas Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size ZeroSabine WieberChapter 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900Gemma BlackshawChapter 8. "Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying." A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert MusilsThe Man without QualitiesGeoffrey HowesChapter 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and Eyes of the MedusaLuke HeightonChapter 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900Anna LehningerChapter 11. The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried: a Psychiatric Space and its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the OutsideThomas Mueller and Frank KuhnBibliography Review "The chapters are of consistently high quality and, when taken together, nicely illuminate what Plumley calls the "rich interdisciplinary seam of madness and artistic modernity". They unearth interesting linkages between the different disciplines and convincingly show the centrality of madness and "mad spaces" to a wide range of cultural expressions… fascinating interrogation of the borders, boundaries, and spaces of madness and modernism at the turn of the century." · German Studies Review"Beyond meeting its own expectations as delineated by its editors, this volume demonstrates extremely well the range of questions that remain to be explored regarding the cultural history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This achievement is an additional reason for its inclusion in advanced undergraduate and graduate seminars." · Austrian History Yearbook "The essays, representing a variety of disciplines and approaches, contribute new ways to look at mental illness in the Austrian context…a valuable collection that provides insight into the way mental illness was understood and functioned at a particular time and place in history, topic that is still relevant for today and the future." · Habsburg – H-Net Reviews Review Quote "The chapters are of consistently high quality and, when taken together, nicely illuminate what Plumley calls the "rich interdisciplinary seam of madness and artistic modernity". They unearth interesting linkages between the different disciplines and convincingly show the centrality of madness and "mad spaces" to a wide range of cultural expressions... fascinating interrogation of the borders, boundaries, and spaces of Details ISBN0857454587 Publisher Berghahn Books Year 2012 ISBN-10 0857454587 ISBN-13 9780857454584 Format Hardcover Imprint Berghahn Books Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Sabine Wieber DEWEY 306.0943609041 Author Sabine Wieber Media Book Language English Pages 222 Series Austrian and Habsburg Studies Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title JOURNEYS INTO MADNESS Series Number 14 Subtitle Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Publication Date 2012-06-01 AU Release Date 2012-06-01 NZ Release Date 2012-06-01 UK Release Date 2012-06-01 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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