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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

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Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 3385618525

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The Poor Law of Lunacy
The Poor Law of Lunacy

Author: Peter Bartlett

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0718501047

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Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Author: Essaka Joshua

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108872034

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The modern concept of disability did not exist in the Romantic period. This study addresses the anachronistic use of 'disability' in scholarship of the Romantic era, providing a disability studies theorized account that explores the relationship between ideas of function and aesthetics. Unpacking the politics of ability, the book reveals the centrality of capacity and weakness concepts to the egalitarian politics of the 1790s, and the importance of desert theory to debates about sentiment and the charitable relief of impaired soldiers. Clarifying the aesthetics of deformity as distinct from discussions of ability, Joshua uncovers a controversy over the use of deformity in picturesque aesthetics, offers accounts of deformity that anticipate recent disability studies theory, and discusses deformity and monstrosity as a blended category in Frankenstein. Setting aside the modern concept of disability, Joshua cogently argues for the historical and critical value of period-specific terms.