The Madhouse of Language - Writing and Reading Madness in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, New)

In "The Madhouse of Language", the history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes towards language were endorsed by rigorous treatment of the insane, or by a manipulative moral therapy. Recognized writers of the period reflect the fascination with a form of mental existence that nevertheless remains beyond expression through socially acceptable forms of language. A variety of written and oral material by the mentally ill, drawn both from medical records and from published works, is discussed in the context of this linguistic suppression. The context, forms and strategies of mad texts are analyzed in an 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1992
First published:	1991
Authors:	Allan Ingram
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-03190-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-415-03190-7
Barcode:	9780415031905

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