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Author : Ilaria Natali,Annalisa Volpone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1624999379
Author : Natali, Ilaria ,Volpone, Annalisa
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781621967095
The stylistic and cultural discourse concerning the narratives of mental disorder is the main focus of Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845. This collection offers new insights into the representation of madness in British literature between two landmark dates for the social, philosophical and medical history of mental deviance: 1744 and 1845. In 1744, the Vagrancy Act first mentions 'lunatics' as a specific category, which is itself a social 'symptom' of an emerging need for isolation and confinement of the insane. A more sophisticated and attentive care of the 'fool' is testified only by the 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act, which established specific processes safeguarding against the wrongful detention of patients in public and private facilities. In stressing for the first time the momentous change the notion of madness underwent between these years, this book provides a fresh and absolutely unique perspective on some of the major works connected with mental disorder. The chronological boundaries also provide the collection with a definite and unifying frame, which comprises social, cultural, legal and medical aspects of madness as an historical phenomenon. It is within this frame that the eight essays composing the body of the book discuss how madness is recounted, or even experienced, by authors such as Christopher Smart and William Cowper, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thomas Perceval, Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Eliza Haywood, and Alfred Tennyson. Symptoms of Disorder draws a wide-ranging map of different representations of madness and their historic functioning between the 18th and 19th centuries. The organizational principle of this collection is a double perspective, which allows to suitably articulate the characterizations of insanity into themes and genres. Reflecting the two main ways in which literary madness can be employed as a critical device in literature, the chapters are grouped into theme-oriented and writer-oriented analyses. Other collections dealing with literature and madness have already coped, to a certain degree, with works that represent insane characters and authors who adopt 'deviant' voices as a fictional or rhetoric expedient. Fewer studies of the same kind, instead, have offered a more comprehensive picture by also looking at the alleged insanity of the writer, and at those linguistic, stylistic and semantic elements which at some stage were commonly believed to be an expression of insanity. This is one of the first studies which addresses the representation of madness from both these intertwined perspectives. See www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979251.cfm for more information.
Author : Natali, Ilaria
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788864533193
The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
Author : D. Christopher Gabbard,Susannah B. Mintz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350028920
18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man'. During the long 18th century, new ideas from aesthetics and the emerging scientific disciplines of physics, biology and zoology contributed to changing fundamental notions about human form, function and ability. The interrelated concepts of the natural and the beautiful coalesced into a hegemonic ideology of form, one which defined communal standards regarding which aspects of human appearance and ability would be considered typical and socially acceptable and which would not. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.
Author : Miriam Borham-Puyal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000029635
This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, quixotes, and detectives as examples of new women who inhabit the margins of society and populate its narratives. Therefore, it places together for the first time four important liminal identities, while it explores a relevant corpus that comprises four centuries and several countries. Its diachronic, transnational, and comparative approach emphasizes the representation across time and space of female sexuality, gender violence, and women’s rights, also employing a liminal stance in its literary analysis: facing the past in order to understand the present. By underlining the dialogue between past and present this monograph contributes to contemporary debates on the representation of women and the construction of femininity as opposed to hegemonic masculinity, for it exposes the line of thought that has brought us to the present moment, hence, challenging assumed stereotypes and narratives. In addition, by using popular narratives and media, the present work highlights the value of literature, films, or alternative forms of storytelling to understand how women’s place in society, their voice, and their presence have been and are still negotiated in spaces of visibility, agency, and power.
Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Author : Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781473879058
“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies
Author : Daniel Hack Tuke
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Insane
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2VTG
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521388848
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Dentistry
ISBN : UOM:39015036741869
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547238027
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The English Novel" by George Saintsbury. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210122300
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521864268
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004484866
This incisive study explores how cultural ideas about proper feminine behavior have shaped the definition and treatment of madness in women as it traces trends in the psychiatric care of women in England from 1830-1980.