Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)
Description
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.
Keywords
LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM
2006Book
Author(s)Katharine Hodgkin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403917652
LanguageEnglish
