Lost souls: women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum
"How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininit...
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing
2019
London Bloomsbury Academic 2019 |
| In: | Year: 2019 |
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Women
Mental health services (Great Britain)
History 19th century
B Mentally ill women (Great Britain) History 19th century B Women Institutional care (Great Britain) History 19th century B Psychiatric hospitals (Great Britain) History 19th century B Women Mental health (Great Britain) History 19th century B Electronic books B Care of the mentally ill |
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| 520 | |a Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions -- Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum -- Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement -- Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls -- Chapter Five: Physical Illness -- Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Sources. | ||
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