Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses
Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses

Author: D. Peschier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-06-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0230505023

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By the middle of the nineteenth century much clearly gendered, anti-Catholic literature was produced for the Protestant middle classes. Nineteenth Century Anti-Catholic Discourses explores how this writing generated a series of popular Catholic images and looks towards the cultural, social and historical foundation of these representations. Diana Peschier places the novels of Charlotte Brontë within the framework of Victorian social ideologies, in particular the climate created by rise of anti-Catholicism and thus provides an alternative reading of her work.

Lost Souls
Lost Souls

Author: Diana Peschier

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1786736608

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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 femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves.