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Item Details
Title:
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MADNESS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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By: |
Katharine Hodgkin |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£82.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1403917655 |
ISBN 13: |
9781403917652 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
Pub. date: |
28 November, 2006 |
Series: |
Early Modern History: Society and Culture |
Pages: |
266 |
Description: |
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside. It asks how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote. |
Synopsis: |
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote. |
Illustrations: |
VI, 266 p. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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