Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by Hodgkin, K.

Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403917652)

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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by Hodgkin, K.

Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

$54.99
Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by Hodgkin, K.

Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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?

Author: K. Hodgkin
ISBN-10: 1403917655
ISBN-13: 9781403917652
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2006
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.66w x 0.77d
By K. Hodgkin
By K. Hodgkin
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KATHARINE HODGKIN teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published articles on various aspects of early modern cultural history, including gender, autobiography, madness, witchcraft and dreams, and co-edited with Susannah Radstone two volumes of essays on memory. She is currently preparing an edition of the writings of Dionys Fitzherbert.

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