How Long to Read Portraits of the Insane

How Long Does it Take to Read Portraits of the Insane?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Portraits of the Insane by Robert Snell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.

How long is Portraits of the Insane?

Portraits of the Insane by Robert Snell is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Portraits of the Insane Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Portraits of the Insane aloud.

What Reading Level is Portraits of the Insane?

Portraits of the Insane is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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