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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
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 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
