The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon
Author: Laure Murat
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022602587X

Download The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial—and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane admitted fourteen men who claimed to be Napoleon. The challenge, meanwhile, is the claim by great French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840) that he could recount the history of France through asylum registries. From those two components, Laure Murat embarks on an exploration of the surprising relationship between history and madness. She uncovers countless stories of patients whose delusions seem to be rooted in the historical or political traumas of their time, like the watchmaker who believed he lived with a new head, his original having been removed at the guillotine. In the troubled wake of the Revolution, meanwhile, French physicians diagnosed a number of mental illnesses tied to current events, from “revolutionary neuroses” and “democratic disease” to the “ambitious monomania” of the Restoration. How, Murat asks, do history and psychiatry, the nation and the individual psyche, interface? A fascinating history of psychiatry—but of a wholly new sort—The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon offers the first sustained analysis of the intertwined discourses of madness, psychiatry, history, and political theory.


The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Laure Murat
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after
Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 638
Authors: Adam Zamoyski
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-16 - Publisher: Basic Books

GET EBOOK

The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a po
Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Paul Johnson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-02 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figu
Napoleon Bonaparte
Language: en
Pages: 33
Authors:
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd

GET EBOOK

This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his
Napoleon
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Andrew Roberts
Categories: Biography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.