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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Hardcover, 2007 ed.) Loot Price: R1,478
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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): K Hodgkin

Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

K Hodgkin

Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

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What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside. Looking at contemporary ideas about mental illness alongside a range of spiritual autobiographies from the period, it asks how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote. These narratives, with their vivid and immediate descriptions of anxieties, delusions and desires, illuminate not only madness in early modern culture, but also sanity, and demonstrate the fragility of the boundary between the two.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United States
Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture
Release date: November 2006
First published: 2007
Authors: K Hodgkin
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Edition: 2007 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-1765-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology
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LSN: 1-4039-1765-5
Barcode: 9781403917652

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