| Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Hodgkin, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403917655 ISBN-13: 9781403917652 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Many early modern writers left accounts of their spiritual sufferings and convictions which deal in extremes of emotion and behavior--some identified by their contemporaries as mad, to be treated with medication, counseling, and confinement. Their writings give us a window into the hidden world of early modern madness from the point of view of the mad. How is madness experienced and treated, and how can it be recorded? How do religion, gender, and class inflect the processes of diagnosis and treatment? And what insights can the stories these writers tell give us into early modern culture? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Biography & Autobiography | Reference - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 920.009 |
| LCCN: 2006050307 |
| Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.66" W x 8.82" (1.82 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |