Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820

Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820

Neuendorf, Mark

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

11/2022

297

Mole

Inglês

9783030843588

15 a 20 dias

406

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1. Introduction.- Part 1: Insanity and the Sentimental Emotional Regime, c. 1770-1800.- 2. 'A Sight for Pity to Peruse': The Spectacle of Madness in the Culture of Sensibility.- 3. Inviolable Beauty: The Madwoman in the Sentimental Age.- Part 2: Lunacy Reform and the 'Romantic' Emotional Regime, c. 1790-1820.- 4. A 'Forcible Appeal to Humanity': Sympathising with the Insane in the Romantic Age.- 5. Spectacles 'Too Shocking for Description': Sensationalism and the Politics of Lunacy Reform in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain.- 6. 'Noble Feelings and Manly Spirit': Indignation, Public Spirit and the Makings of an Asylum Revolution.- 7. Conclusion: An 'Active Spirit of Humanity'? Emotions and the History of Asylum Reform.
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madness;humanitarianism;sentimentalism;social reform;'cult of sensibility'