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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