Format:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780857454591
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg Studies v.14
Content:
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's 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 character's 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'.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition 'Madness and Modernity' -- Chapter 2 - Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness -- Chapter 3 - Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler's Vienna -- Chapter 4 - Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders -- Chapter 5 - Travel to the Spas: The Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe, 1850-1914 -- Chapter 6 - Vienna's Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero -- Chapter 7 - Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900 -- Chapter 8 - 'Hell Is Not Interesting, It Is Terrifying': A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities -- Chapter 9 - Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa -- Chapter 10 - Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900 -- Chapter 11 - The Württemberg Asylum of Schussenried: A Psychiatric Space and Its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the 'Outside' -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857454584
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780857454584
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454591
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454591
