A Document in Madness:Ophelia's Music of Insanity

This paper considers the musicological aspects of the songs performed by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. It proposes a reconsideration of the concept of madness and insanity by an attentive, attuned and learned listening to the songs sung by Ophelia and the ways in which they are performed and received.

"She Was Not Even Normal": Unreliable Narratives of Female Insanity in Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Wide Sargasso Sea

In my thesis, I interrogate narrative reliability related to depictions of female insanity in Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Wide Sargasso Sea. By subjecting the trustworthiness of her storytelling to criticism, especially as regards the concealed madwoman, Bertha Mason, Jane's narration is revealed as unstable, offering problematic insight into a character long considered unflinchingly honest. In du Maurier's later literary adaptation of Jane Eyre, Bertha's parallel character, the eponymous Rebecca, comes to the fore, while the novel's unnamed narrator remains in the shadows, and bases much of her storytelling upon hearsay, rather than the "autobiography" of Jane Eyre. The most transparent narrative voice, however, is Antoinette, the main character of Wide Sargasso Sea, the 1966 prequel to Jane Eyre. Despite her madness, Antoinette's narration makes no attempt at dissemblance, speaking forthrightly about her marriage and experience, proving a truthful narrator and openly rejecting the marginal status the earlier narrators try desperately to hide.

Text-book of insanity, based on clinical observations for practitioners and students of medicine.

Translation of Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie auf klinischer Grundlage für practische Aerzte und Studierende.

Observations on the nature, kinds, causes and prevention of insanity, lunacy or madness /

Contiene : Vol. I, containing observations on the nature and various kinds of insanity ; Vol. II, containing observations on the causes and prevention of insanity.

Cases of insanity : the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders, successfully treated /

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual Report of the State Board of Insanity of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A "Directory of institutions" is included also, 1898/99-1914/15.

On man's power over himself to prevent or control insanity. Communicated to the members at the Royal institution of Great Britain...May 26th, 1843.

Mode of access: Internet.

Special report of the State Board of Insanity to the Massachusetts General Court as to the best method of providing for the insane. (In compliance with chapter 34, resolves of 1908) May, 1908.

At head of title: Senate document no. 358.

The American journal of insanity.

From July 1844 to Apr. 1894 ed. by the medical officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. From July 1894 to pub. by a committee of (later "under the auspices of") the American Medico-Psychological Association.

Outlines of lectures on the nature, causes, and treatment of insanity /

Mode of access: Internet.

A new view of insanity. The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions, and diseases of the brain, and by the phenomena of mental derangement, and shewn to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix ...

Mode of access: Internet.

On irritation and insanity : A work wherein the relations of the physical with the moral conditions of man, are established on the basis of physiological medicine /

The two tracts by Cooper have special title-pages. They were published anonymously, Philadelphia, 1823.

Delights of wisdom concerning conjugial love : after which follow pleasures of insanity concerning scortatory love.

Originally published in Latin in Amsterdam, 1768.