The Madhouse of Language

by Allan Ingram

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415031907
• ISBN13: 9780415031905
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.6"