Serena Trowbridge

Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself - its architecture, funding and purpose - and at the experience of those who were sent there.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317318545
• Artikelnr.: 43589580

Autorenporträt

Thomas Knowles, Serena Trowbridge

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Thomas Knowles
Serena Trowbridge; Part I Literary; Chapter 1 'Horrible Dens of Deception': Thomas Bakewell
Thomas Mulock and Antiasylum Sentiments
c.1815-60
Rebecca Wynterk; Chapter 2 'This Most Noble of Disorders': Matilda Betham on the Reformation of the Madhouse
Elaine Bailey; Chapter 3 The Legacy of Victorian Asylums in the Landscape of Contemporary British Literature
Thomas Knowles; Part II Quantitative; Chapter 4 Building a Lunatic Asylum: 'A Question of Beer
Milk and the Irish'
Bernard Melling; Chapter 5 'Just can't Work them Hard Enough': A Historical Bioarcheological Study of the Inmate Experience at the Oneida County Asylum
Shawn M. Phillips; Chapter 6 'Always Bear in Mind that You are in Your Senses': Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century - from Keeper to attendant to Nurse
Claire Chatterton; Chapter 7 'Atrophied'
'Engorged'
'Debauched': Degenerative Processes and Moral Worth in the General Paralytic Body
Jennifer Wallis; Part III Cultural; Chapter 8 'Attitudes Passionelles': The Pornographic Spaces of the Salpêtrière
Amanda Finelli; Chapter 9 'The Poison that Upsets my Reason': Men
Madness and Drunkenness in the Victorian Period
Kostas Makras; Chapter 10 'Madness and Masculinity': Male Patients in London Asylums and Victorian Culture
Helen Goodman; Chapter 11 'Straitjacket': A Confined History
Will Wiles;