Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography /

Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography /

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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hodgkin, Katharine (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Early modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
European History.
European Literature.
Historiography and Method.
Modern History.
Social History.
Civilization > History.
European literature.
Historiography.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Europe > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 266 pages)
ISBN:9780230626423
DOI:10.1057/9780230626423