Theaters of Madness

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Sanative Culture
 
Chapter One
Brothers and Sisters of Asylumia:
Literary Life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum
 
Chapter Two
Saneface Minstrelsy:
Blacking Up in the Asylum
 
Chapter Three
Bardolatry in Bedlam:
Shakespeare and Early Psychiatry
 
Chapter Four
Emerson’s Close Encounters with Madness
 
Chapter Five
What’s the Point of a Revolution?
Edgar Allan Poe and the Origins of the Asylum
 
Chapter Six
Out of the Attic:
Gender, Captivity, and Asylum Exposés
 
Epilogue
Echoes
 
Notes
 
Index