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title	:	Insanity As Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction : Inmates Running the Asylum
author	:	Lupack, Barbara Tepa.
publisher	:	University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin	:	0813013313
print isbn13	:	9780813013312
ebook isbn13	:	9780813019956
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and mental illness--United States--History--20th century, Psychiatric hospital patients in literature, Mentally ill in literature, Redemption in literature.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS374.M44L87 1995eb
ddc	:	813/.5409353
subject	:	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and mental illness--United States--History--20th century, Psychiatric hospital patients in literature, Mentally ill in literature, Redemption in literature.

Page_ii Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction Inmates Running the Asylum Barbara Tepa Lupack University Press of Florida Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville

Page iv Copyright 1995 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved 99 98 97 96 95 94 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Publication Data Lupack, Barbara Tepa, 1951 Insanity as redemption in contemporary American fiction: inmates running the asylum / Barbara Tepa Lupack. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8130-1331-3 1. American fiction20th century History and criticism. 2. Literature and mental illnessUnited States History20th century. 3. Psychiatric hospital patients in literature. 4. Mentally ill in literature. 5. Redemption in literature. I. Title. PS374.M46L861995 813'.5409353dc2094-29265 The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprised of Florida A & M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida. University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611

Page v To my mother, Jane H. Tepa, and in memory of my father, George W. Tepa, for sharing with me their sense of humor, their love of knowledge, and their experience of life And to my husband, Al, for that, and for everything else

Page vii [The asylum was] not so much an effort to free the insane from the horrors of rat-infested cells as a drive to bring madness under the rigid and unbending control of reason.... Through the asylum the society would conquer madness by undermining it into conformity. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization Much Madness is divinest Sense To a discerning Eye Much Sensethe starkest Madness 'Tis the Majority In this, as All prevail Assentand you are sane Demuryou're straightway dangerous And handled with a Chain Emily Dickinson

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Inmates Running the Asylum: The Individual Versus the Institution 7 Chapter 2. Seeking a Sane Asylum: Catch-22 19 Chapter 3. Hail to the Chief: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 63 Chapter 4. Pilgrim's Regress: Slaughterhouse-Five 99 Chapter 5. Happening by Chance: Being There 135 Chapter 6. When Dark Gods Prey: Sophie's Choice 155 Notes 203 Selected Bibliography 227 Index 237

Page xi Acknowledgments I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities, for a grant which allowed me research opportunities I might not otherwise have enjoyed; the Fulbright Program, for allowing me to teach and to conduct research for this and an earlier manuscript abroad; and the State University of New York (ESC) Foundation, for a professional reassignment which gave me time to begin the writing. The Rush Rhees Library of the University of Rochester provided me with valuable services and materials. I extend my thanks to the editors of the journals The Polish Review, The New Orleans Review, The Connecticut Review, and Anglica Wratislaviensia,

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