Katherine Fennelly

An archaeology of lunacy (eBook, ePUB)

Managing madness in early nineteenth-century asylums

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period. Examining architecture and material culture, the book proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. It looks at the planning and construction of the first public asylums and assesses the extent to which popular ideas about reformed management practices for the insane were applied at ground level. Crucially, it moves beyond doctors and reformers, repopulating the asylum with the myriad characters that made up its everyday existence: keepers, clerks and patients. Contributing to archaeological scholarship on institutions of confinement, the book is aimed at academics, students and general readers interested in the material environment of the historic lunatic asylum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526126511
• Artikelnr.: 57471908

Autorenporträt

Katherine Fennelly is an emeritus professor of public policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she was on the faculty in the School of Public Health early in her career. She is known for the breadth and quality of her social science research and for numerous academic publications. In this book, Fennelly applies her expertise to an investigation of the life of her maternal grandfather, a Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one hundred years ago and became the head of an elite espionage unit for the Allied Forces and an award-winning children's book author. Her strategies involved conducting genealogical research, accessing personnel files from the CIA and reviewing hundreds of previously unpublished original documents at the National Archives. She read widely on each of the topics covered and corresponded with scholars of World War II, Jewish history, and the Holocaust. She also interviewed surviving family members about her grandfather's life and accomplishments.