Pieces of Mind: Making and Unmaking a Lexicon of the Psyche in Central and Eastern European Literary Modernity (1880-1930)

• Main Author: Reilly, Catherine Irene
• Other Authors: Emerson, Caryl, Comparative Literature Department
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University 2017
• Subjects: Anton Chekhov; Daniel Paul Schreber; Eastern Europe; Modernism; Psychiatry; Standarization; Comparative literature; Slavic literature; German literature; Penal; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01pk02cd34v

This dissertation offers a critical account of literature’s stakes in the development of a systematized international classification scheme and vocabulary to describe mental illness in the late nineteenth century, within a context of post-Enlightenment trends to measure the human subject. Avant-gard...