Victorian Lunatics
Author: Marlene Ann Arieno
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780945636038
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Author: Marlene Ann Arieno
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780945636038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle Higgs
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-02-12
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1473834465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.
Author: Mark Stevens
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1473842387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed. Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable institutions. Mark Stevens, a professional archivist, and expert on asylum records, delves into Victorian mental health hospital documents to recreate the experience of entering an asylum and being treated there—perhaps for a lifetime. Praise for Broadmoor Revealed “Superb.” —Family Tree magazine “Detailed and thoughtful.” —Times Literary Supplement “Paints a fascinating picture.” —Who Do You Think You Are? magazine
Author: Mark Stevens
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2020-10-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781526796479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor': Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1981-08
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0812211197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.
Author: Victoria
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edwin Fuller Torrey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780813530031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the records on insanity in England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States over a 250-year period, concluding, through quantitative and qualitative evidence, that insanity is an unrecognized, modern-day plague.
Author: Marjorie Levine-Clark
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0814209564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by employment.
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804724807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved