Diana Peschier

Lost Souls (eBook, ePUB)

Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786726544
• Artikelnr.: 57743827

Autorenporträt

Diana Peschier holds a PhD from University of London. She is the author of Nineteenth-century Anti-Catholic Discourse: The Case of Charlotte Bronte (2005)

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions Chapter
Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum Chapter Three: Women
with Religious Excitement Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching:
Lessons for Girls Chapter Five: Physical Illness Chapter Six: Asylums and
Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature Chapter Seven: Male
Asylum Patients Epilogue Bibliography and Sources