Author: LESLIE ANN. HARPERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527552968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
GENDERING OF MADNESS IN VICTORIAN AND MODERN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
Author: LESLIE ANN. HARPERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527552968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Gendering of Madness in Victorian and Modern England and America
Author: Leslie Ann HarperPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527552977
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Various scholars have addressed the association between women and mental illness in Victorian and Modern culture; however, little attention has been devoted to how this association impacted the lives of actual women. This book analyzes how the gendered construction of mental illness affected the lives of individual women living in Victorian and Modern England and America. The study reveals that the cultural association between women and madness made women vulnerable to unwarranted institutionalization. Women who rebelled against social conventions were particularly at risk, and the public was aware of this risk. In addition to analyzing how the public responded to the threat of unnecessary incarceration, the book analyzes how women responded to incarceration themselves. Moreover, it explores how some women who experienced mental illness responded to the treatment they received. This study ultimately reveals that some women actively protested the diagnoses and treatments for mental illness.
Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England
Author: Katharine HodgkinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351871579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course of her affliction and recovery and describes various delusions and confusions, concerned with (among other things) her family and her place within it; her relation to religion; and the status of the body, death and immortality. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also included are prefaces to the narrative written by Fitzherbert and others, and letters written shortly after her mental crisis, which develop her account of the episode. The edition will also give a modernized version of the original text. Katharine Hodgkin supplies a substantial introduction that places this autobiography in the context of current scholarship on early modern women, addressing the overarching issues in the field that this text touches upon. In an appendix to the volume, Hodgkin compares the two versions of the text, considering the grounds for the occasional exclusion or substitution of specific words or passages. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England adds an important new dimension to the field of early modern women studies.
The Female Malady
Author: Elaine ShowalterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Out of his mind
Author: Amy Milne-SmithPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526155044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Out of His Mind interrogates 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 one’s freedom and in many ways one’s 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 men’s insanity.
Post-war Mothers
Author: Mary ThomasPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781878822871
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century, revealed in their own words.
Affective Labour in British and American Women’s Fiction, 1848-1915
Author: Katherine SkarisPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527514277
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of women’s nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and explores the concept of women’s affective labour, and examines literary representations of this work in British and American fiction written by women between 1848 and 1915. Secondly, it revives largely ignored texts by the “scribbling women” of Britain and America, such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mona Caird, and Mary Hunter Austin, and rereads established authors, such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, to demonstrate how all these works provide valuable insights into women’s lives in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally, by adopting the lens of affective labour, the study explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through forms of emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.
A History of Infanticide in Britain, c. 1600 to the Present
Author: A. KildayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137349123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject area for historians to approach up until now. This work provides the first detailed history of infanticide in mainland Britain from 1600 to the modern era.
Thicker Than Water
Author: Leonore DavidoffPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199546487
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A pioneering new study of nineteenth-century kinship and family relations, focusing on the British middle class, and highlighting both the similarities and the differences in relations between brothers and sisters in the past and in the present.
Neo-Victorian Madness
Author: Sarah E. MaierPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030465829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.