The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America

by Thomas Cooley

From Samuel Morton's collection of Native American skulls to William James's writings on the consciousness of lost limbs, this book examines a startling array of artifacts that reflect nineteenth-century thinking about madness, race, and gender. According to Thomas W. Cooley, what unites these seemingly disconnected cultural fragments is the governing model of "psychology," as it was just then coming to be called, that shaped the American understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558492844
• ISBN13: 9781558492844
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"