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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- 1 Pneumotypes
- 2 Vocal Culture in the Age of Laryngoscopy
- 3 Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
- 4 Opera and Hypnosis: Victor Maurel’s Experiments in Suggestion with Verdi’s Otello
- Part II Ears
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
from Part I - Voices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2019
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- 1 Pneumotypes
- 2 Vocal Culture in the Age of Laryngoscopy
- 3 Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
- 4 Opera and Hypnosis: Victor Maurel’s Experiments in Suggestion with Verdi’s Otello
- Part II Ears
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In his celebrated essay on insanity in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales (1816), French psychiatrist Étienne Esquirol marvelled at the earlier custom of allowing asylum inmates to attend theatrical productions at Charenton.
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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination , pp. 63 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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