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Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography
- Title
- Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography / Katharine Hodgkin.
- Author
- Hodgkin, Katharine, 1961-
- Publication
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 266 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Many early modern writers left accounts of their spiritual sufferings and convictions which deal in extremes of emotion and behavior--some identified by their contemporaries as mad, to be treated with medication, counseling, and confinement. Their writings give us a window into the hidden world of early modern madness from the point of view of the mad. How is madness experienced and treated, and how can it be recorded? How do religion, gender, and class inflect the processes of diagnosis and treatment? And what insights can the stories these writers tell give us into early modern culture?
- Series Statement
- Early modern history : society and culture
- Uniform Title
- Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- 1600-1699
- Geschichte 1600-1700
- Autobiography
- Biography > 17th century
- Mental illness
- Medicine > History > 17th century
- Mental Disorders > history
- Autobiographies as Topic
- History, 17th Century
- Mental Disorders
- autobiography (genre)
- mental disorders
- Medicine
- Autobiography
- Biography
- Mental illness
- Psychose
- Psychisch Kranker
- Erleben
- Psychosoziale Belastung
- Geschichte
- England
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- History
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-257) and index.
- Contents
- Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Studying the History of Madness -- 2 Crises of the Self: Madness and Autobiographical Writing -- 3 Without Sense and Understanding: Concepts of Madness in Early Modern Thought -- 4 Melancholy: A Land of Darkness -- 5 Mad Unto the World: Spiritual and Mental Disturbances -- 6 The Thread Out of the Labyrinth: The Experience of Cure -- 7 Inside and Outside: The Body and its Boundaries -- 8 Beyond the Human Body: Life, Death and the Devil -- 9 Family Histories: The Self and Others -- 10 Love and Desire: Disordered Passions -- 11 Conclusion: Writing out of the Labyrinth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781403917652
- 1403917655
- LCCN
- 2006050307
- OCLC
- ocm70823333
- 70823333
- SCSB-9671751
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library