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OUT OF HIS MIND IBD

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
05 / 2024
9781526178855
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Sinopsis

Out of His Mindáinterrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of oneâÇÖs freedom and in many ways oneâÇÖs identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of menâÇÖs insanity.

PVP
43,95