Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature / Allen Thiher.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999], ©1999.

354 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliography (p. [325]-335) and index.

Madness from Hippocrates to Hølderlin -- Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world -- Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly -- Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes -- The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines -- Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment -- Part the modernity of madness -- The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry -- Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness -- Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis -- Modernist poetic discourse in madness -- The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos -- Postscript: madness between history and neurology -- Notes -- Index.