Theaters of madness: insane asylums and nineteenth-century American culture

Introduction: sanative culture

Brothers and sisters of asylumia: literary life in the New York State Lunatic Asylum

Saneface minstrelsy: blacking up in the asylum

Bardolatry in Bedlam: Shakespeare and early psychiatry

Emerson's close encounters with madness

What's the point of a revolution?: Edgar Allan Poe and the origins of the asylum

Out of the attic: gender, captivity, and asylum exposés.