UID:
almafu_9960890209202883
Format:
1 online resource (222 p.)
ISBN:
9780857454591
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 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’.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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List of Figures --
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Introduction --
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1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition ‘Madness and Modernity’ --
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2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness --
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3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler’s Vienna --
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4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders --
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5. Travel to the Spas: The Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe, 1850–1914 --
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6. Vienna’s Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero --
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7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900 --
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8. ‘Hell Is Not Interesting, It Is Terrifying’: A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities --
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9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa --
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10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900 --
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11. The Württemberg Asylum of Schussenried: A Psychiatric Space and Its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the ‘Outside’ --
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Select Bibliography --
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Notes on Contributors --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780857454591
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454591
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454591
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454591
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454591