Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature

by Allen Thiher

Overview

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472089994
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	12/23/2004
Series:	Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Allen Thiher is Curator's Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages, University of Missouri. His other books include Words in Reflection and The Power of Tautology: The Roots of Literary Theory.