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      Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century
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      Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century book

      BySerena Trowbridge
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 4 August 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315654263
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9781315654263
      Subjects Humanities
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      Trowbridge, S. (2015). Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315654263

      ABSTRACT

      The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |10 pages

      Introduction

      BySerena Trowbridge and Thomas Knowles

      chapter 1|18 pages

      ‘Horrible Dens of Deception’: Thomas Bakewell , Thomas Mulock and Anti-Asylum Sentiments, c. 1815–58

      ByRebecca Wynter

      chapter 2|12 pages

      ‘This Most Noble of Disorders’: Matilda Betham on the Reformation of the Madhouse

      ByElaine Bailey

      chapter 3|16 pages

      The Legacy of Victorian Asylums in the Landscape of Contemporary British Literature

      ByThomas Knowles

      chapter 4|14 pages

      Building a Lunatic Asylum: ‘A Question of Beer, Milk and the Irish’

      ByBernard Mellling

      chapter 5|14 pages

      ‘Just Can’t Work Them Hard Enough’: A Historical Bioarcheological Study of the Inmate Experience at the Oneida County Asylum

      ByShawn Phillips

      chapter 6|14 pages

      ‘Always Remember that you are in your Senses’: From Keeper to Attendant to Nurse

      ByClaire Chatterton

      chapter 7|16 pages

      ‘Atrophied’, ‘Engorged’, ‘Debauched’: Muscle Wastage, Degenerate Mass and Moral Worth in the General Paralytic Patient

      ByJennifer Wallis

      chapter 8|20 pages

      ‘Attitudes Passionelles’: The Pornographic Spaces of the Salpêtriére

      ByAmanda Finelli

      chapter 9|14 pages

      ‘The Poison that Upsets my Reason’: Men, Madness and Drunkenness in the Victorian Period

      ByKostas Makras

      chapter 10|18 pages

      ‘Madness and Masculinity’: Male Patients in London Asylums and Victorian Culture

      ByHelen Goodman

      chapter 11|16 pages

      ‘Straitjacket’: A Confined History

      ByWill Wiles
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