The Madhouse of Language: Writing and Reading Madness in the Eighteenth Century

by Allan Ingram

Overview

Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415755184
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/24/2014
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Allan Ingram

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: to Build a House for Fools and Mad; Chapter 2 The History of Silence; Chapter 3 Cracks in the Walls; Chapter 4 Borrowed Robes; Chapter 5 The Struggle for Language; Chapter 6 The Inner Voice; Chapter 7 Rhyme and Reason;