Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England (eBook, ePUB)

The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
Redaktion: Hodgkin, Katharine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder in seventeenth-century England. Katharine Hodgkin presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also included are prefaces to the narrative written by Fitzherbert and others, and letters written shortly after her mental crisis, which develop her account of the episode.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351871570
• Artikelnr.: 48418473

Autorenporträt

Katharine Hodgkin, Reader in Cultural History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Bibliography
Note on transcript
Transcript of Dionys Fitzherbert's Manuscript
Appendix
Index.