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Out of His Mind - Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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Out of His Mind - Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in History
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Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the
madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even
at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of
nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a
loss of one's freedom and in many ways one's identify. Because men
had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also
meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal
figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a
cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social
anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears
of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts,
literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a
rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of
men's insanity. -- .
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