Madness and the mad in Russian culture / edited by Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky.

Includes some articles translated into English from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328).

A cheerful empress and her gloomy critics : Catherine the Great and the eighteenth-century melancholy controversy / Ilya Vinitsky -- The Osvidetel'stvovanie and Ispytanie of insanity : psychiatry in Tsarist Russia / Lia Iangoulova -- Madness as an act of defence of personality in Dostoevsky's The double / Elena Dryzhakova -- Vsevolod Garshin, the Russian intelligentsia, and fan hysteria / Robert D. Wessling -- On hostile ground : madness and madhouse in Joseph Brodsky's 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' / Lev Loseff -- The concept of revolutionary insanity in Russian history / Martin A. Miller -- The politics of etiology : shell shock in the Russian army, 1914-1918 / Irina Sirotkina -- Lives out of balance : the 'possible world' of Soviet suicide during the 1920s / Kenneth Pinnow -- Early Soviet forensic psychiatric approaches to sex crime, 1917-1934 / Dan Healey -- Writing about madness : Russian attitudes toward psyche and psychiatry, 1887-1907 / Angela Brintlinger -- 'Let them go crazy' : madness in the works of Chekhov / Margarita Odesskaya -- The genetics of genius : V.P. Efroimson and the biosocial mechanisms of heightened intellectual activity / Yvonne Howell -- Madwomen without attics : the crazy creatrix and the procreative Iurodivaia / Helena Goscilo -- A 'new Russian' madness? : Fedor Mikhailov's novel Idiot and Roman Kachanov's film Daun Khaus / Andrei Rogachevskii -- Methods of madness and madness as a method / Mikhail Epstein.

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