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Author:   Thomas Knowles ,  Serena Trowbridge
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Volume:   36
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781848934528

ISBN 10:   1848934521
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Salpetriere, 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;

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'delivers with alacrity and aplomb. It was a pleasure to read' Mad, bad and desperate - crime and insanity in Victorian England

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