{"product_id":"madness-and-the-mad-in-russian-culture-paperback-softback-9781487520205","title":"Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487520205","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMadness and the Mad in Russian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAngela Brintlinger (Edited by), Ilya Vinitsky (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487520205\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 October 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This collection is an important contribution to our understanding of the ways in which the shifting discourse of madness offers a rich and varied lens through which to explore Russia's troubled experience of modernity.\" - D. Beer (Slavonic and East European Review\/vvol88:03:10) ‘A series of fascinating essays that approach the problem of insanity in Russian culture from wide-ranging disciplinary angles.’ - Valeria Sobol (The Russian Review) ‘The most comprehensive interdisciplinary survey of its kind.’ - Dmitri Shalin (Russian Journal of Communication) ‘A cornucopia of delights for specialists and generalists alike.’ - Scarlet Marquette (Slavic and East European Journal) ‘The volume is a broad mosaic ... exciting and kaleidoscopic.’ - Elena L. Grigorenko (PsycCRITIQUES) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;This collection of essays is both an excellent introduction to madness and an opportunity to probe this fascinating terrain in depth.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Nigel Raab (Left History vol 20:01:2016)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological matter, but also as a metaphysical one, encompassing problems of suffering, imagination, history, sex, social and world order, evil, retribution, death, and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadness and the Mad in Russian Culture\u003c\/em\u003e represents a joint effort by American, British, and Russian scholars - historians, literary scholars, sociologists, cultural theorists, and philosophers - to understand the rich history of madness in the political, literary, and cultural spheres of Russia. Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness - from the involvement of state and social structures in questions of mental health, to the attitudes of major Russian authors and cultural figures towards insanity and how those attitudes both shape and are shaped by the history, culture, and politics of Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eNote on Translation and Transliteration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introduction: Approaching Russian Madness\u003cbr\u003e  ANGELA BRINTLINGER\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART ONE: MADNESS, THE STATE, AND SOCIETY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 1 A Cheerful Empress and Her Gloomy Critics: Catherine the Great and the Eighteenth-Century Melancholy Controversy\u003cbr\u003e ILYA VINITSKY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 2 The \u003cem\u003eOsvidetel’stvovanie \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eIspytanie \u003c\/em\u003eof Insanity: Psychiatry in Tsarist Russia\u003cbr\u003e LIA IANGOULOVA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 3 Madness as an Act of Defence of Personality in Dostoevsky’s\u003cem\u003eThe Double\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELENA DRYZHAKOVA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 4 Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian Intelligentsia, and Fan Hysteria\u003cbr\u003e  ROBERT D. WESSLING\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 5 On Hostile Ground: Madness and Madhouse in Joseph Brodsky’s‘Gorbunov and Gorchakov'\u003cbr\u003e LEV LOSEFF\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART TWO: MADNESS, WAR, AND REVOLUTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 6 The Concept of Revolutionary Insanity in Russian History\u003cbr\u003e MARTIN A. MILLER\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 7 The Politics of Etiology: Shell Shock in the Russian Army, 1914–1918\u003cbr\u003e IRINA SIROTKINA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 8 Lives Out of Balance: The ‘Possible World’ of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e KENNETH PINNOW\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 9 Early Soviet Forensic Psychiatric Approaches to Sex Crime, 1917–1934\u003cbr\u003e DAN HEALEY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART THREE: MADNESS AND CREATIVITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 10 Writing about Madness: Russian Attitudes toward Psyche and Psychiatry, 1887–1907\u003cbr\u003e ANGELA BRINTLINGER\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 11 ‘Let Them Go Crazy’: Madness in the Works of Chekhov\u003cbr\u003e MARGARITA ODESSKAYA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 12 The Genetics of Genius: V.P. Efroimson and the Biosocial Mechanisms of Heightened Intellectual Activity\u003cbr\u003e YVONNE HOWELL\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 13 Madwomen without Attics: The Crazy Creatrix and the Procreative \u003cem\u003eIurodivaia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e HELENA GOSCILO\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 14 A ‘New Russian’ Madness? Fedor Mikhailov’s Novel \u003cem\u003eIdiot \u003c\/em\u003eand Roman Kachanov’s Film \u003cem\u003eDaun Khaus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ANDREI ROGACHEVSKII\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 15 Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method\u003cbr\u003e MIKHAIL EPSTEIN\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e JULIE V. 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