Jay, Mike. This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond. Thames & Hudson Ltd / Wellcome Collection, 2016.
Category: Inspirations
Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a Negro
Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a Negro. Samuel French, 1969.
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. W.W. Norton, 1999.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. Perennial Classics, 1999.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Berkley, 1962.
Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in Mad-House
Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in a Mad-House, Ian Munro, 1887.
xt Available: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html
Wright, Richard. “The Man Who Lived Underground”
Wright, Richard. “The Man Who Lived Underground.” Eight Men, Harper Collins, 1996.
Du Bois, W.E.B. Strivings of the Negro People
Du Bois, W.E.B. “Strivings of the Negro People.” Atlantic Monthly 80, 1897.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, W.W. Norton, 2003.
Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization
Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine, Princeton U.P., 2015.
Hamilton, Allan McLane. Types of Insanity
Hamilton, Allan McLane. Types of Insanity: An Illustrated Guide in the Physical Diagnosis of Mental Disease, William Wood, 1883.
Fisher, T.W. Plain Talk About Insanity
Fisher, T.W. Plain Talk About Insanity: Its Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and the Treatment of Mental Diseases, Alexander Moore, 1873.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” U.S. National Library of Medicine, The Literature of Prescription Exhibition Materials, 2009.
“The Yellow Wall-Paper” at the NIH: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/pdf/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
Blake, William. “Mad Song”
Blake, William. “Mad Song.” Poetry Foundation.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43674/mad-song-56d22277c69a4
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Dejection: An Ode”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Dejection: An Ode.” The Web Companion to the Norton Anthology of Literature, 8th Edition, 2010-2020, WW Norton, https://wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/welcome.htm
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson, New York Review of Books, 2001.
…for a pint of honey thou shalt here likely find a gallon of gall, for a dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for inch of mirth an ell of moan; these miseries encompass our life…”
p. 144
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage Books, 1965.
Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly
Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly. Translated by Clarence H. Miller, Yale U.P., 1979.
Anonymous. “Tom O’Bedlam Songs”
“Tom O’ Bedlam Songs.” Barbaric Vast and Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman, Black Widow Press, 2015, pp 117-21.
Poem Available at The HyperTexts http://www.thehypertexts.com/Tom%20O%27%20Bedlam%27s%20Song.htm
Plato. Phaedrus
Plato. Phaedrus. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, produced by Sue Asscher and David Widger, Project Gutenberg, 2008.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1636/1636-h/1636-h.htm#link2H_4_0002
Ginsberg, Alan. “Howl”
Ginsberg, Alan. “Howl.” Collected Poems, 1947-1980, HarperCollins, 1984.
Poem at Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History.
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford UP, 2013.
Dickinson, Emily. “Much Madness”
Dickinson, Emily. “Much Madness is Divinest Sense.” Barbaric Vast and Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman, Black Widow Press, 2015, pp 134-37.
Poem Available at Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51612/much-madness-is-divinest-sense-620
Aeschylus, “Kassandra’s Cry”
Aeschylus,”Kassandra’s Cry.” Translated by Anne Carson. Barbaric Vast and Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman, Black Widow Press, 2015, pp 21-25.
Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Tell Tale Heart”
Poe, Edgar Allen, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Raven
Edition, Vol. 2, Project Gutenberg, produced by David Widger, 2008.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#link2H_4_0019
Copy at the Poe Museum: https://poemuseum.org/the-tell-tale-heart/