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Idiocy : a cultural history
- Title
- Idiocy : a cultural history / Patrick McDonagh.
- Author
- McDonagh, Patrick.
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 369 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Representations: health, disability, culture and society
- Uniform Title
- Representations (Liverpool, England)
- Subjects
- Intellectual disability in literature > History
- Mental Retardation > history > Great Britain
- Intellectual disability > Social aspects > History
- Medicine in Literature > Great Britain
- History, 19th Century > Great Britain
- Mentally Disabled Persons > history > Great Britain
- Intellectual disability > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Learning disabilities > Social aspects > History
- Social Conditions > history > Great Britain
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-359) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations -- 'Stripping our own hearts naked': William Wordsworth and John Wilson read 'The idiot boy' -- A 'pupil of innocent nature!' The wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris -- Diminished men: masculinity and idiocy -- Essential women: feminity and idiocy -- Holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin -- History, society, economy: holy fools and idiots come home in nineteenth-century literature -- Barnaby Rudge, idiocy and paternalism: assisting the 'poor idiot' -- Innocence, philanthropy and economics: the new 'asylum' idiot -- Sensational idiocy -- 'The sins of the fathers': idiocy, evolution and degeneration -- Danger and degeneracy: the threat of the urban idiot -- The problem of the feeble-minded: the Royal Commission, eugenics and eternal chaos -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2777
- ISBN
- 9781846310959 (cased)
- 1846310954 (cased)
- 9781846310966
- 1846310962
- OCLC
- 259254937
- Author
- McDonagh, Patrick.
- Title
- Idiocy : a cultural history / Patrick McDonagh.
- Imprint
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Representations: health, disability, culture and societyRepresentations (Liverpool, England)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-359) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2777