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Title Madness and the mad in Russian culture / edited by Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2007

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Contents A cheerful empress and her gloomy critics : Catherine the Great and the eighteenth-century melancholy controversy / Ilya Vinitsky -- The Osvidetel'stvovanie and Ispytanie of insanity : psychiatry in Tsarist Russia / Lia Iangoulova -- Madness as an act of defence of personality in Dostoevsky's The double / Elena Dryzhakova -- Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian intelligentsia, and fan hysteria / Robert D. Wessling -- On hostile ground : madness and madhouse in Joseph Brodsky's 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' / Lev Loseff -- The concept of revolutionary insanity in Russian history / Martin A. Miller -- The politics of etiology : shell shock in the Russian army, 1914-1918 / Irina Sirotkina -- Lives out of balance : the 'possible world' of Soviet suicide during the 1920s / Kenneth Pinnow -- Early Soviet forensic psychiatric approaches to sex crime, 1917-1934 / Dan Healey -- Writing about madness : Russian attitudes toward psyche and psychiatry, 1887-1907 / Angela Brintlinger -- 'Let them go crazy' : madness in the works of Chekhov / Margarita Odesskaya -- The genetics of genius : V.P. Efroimson and the biosocial mechanisms of heightened intellectual activity / Yvonne Howell -- Madwomen without attics : the crazy creatrix and the procreative Iurodivaia / Helena Goscilo -- A 'new Russian' madness? : Fedor Mikhailov's novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov's film Daun Khaus / Andrei Rogachevskii -- Methods of madness and madness as a method / Mikhail Epstein
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328)
Notes Includes some articles translated into English from the Russian
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Subject Mental illness -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Mental illness in literature.
Literature and mental illness -- Russia (Federation)
Psychiatry -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Genius and mental illness -- Russia (Federation)
Mentally ill -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
Medicine in literature.
Mental Disorders -- history
Medicine in Literature
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Medicine in literature
Civilization
Genius and mental illness
Mental illness in literature
Literature and mental illness
Mental illness
Mentally ill
Psychiatry
Troubles mentaux -- histoire -- Russie.
Médecine dans littérature -- histoire -- Russie.
Psychische stoornissen.
Russisch.
Maladies mentales -- Russie -- Histoire.
Littérature et maladies mentales -- Russie.
Psychiatrie -- Russie -- Histoire.
Génie et maladies mentales -- Russie.
Malades mentaux -- Russie -- Biographies.
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002898
Russia (Federation)
Subject Russia (Federation)
Rusland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Brintlinger, Angela, editor.
Vinit︠s︡kiĭ, I. I︠U︡. (Ilʹi︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevich), 1969- editor
LC no. 2007532101
ISBN 9781442684539
1442684534