Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century: A Reader

By Allan Ingram

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Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalisation of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake and Coleridge.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0853239827

ISBN13:9780853239826

Release Date:October 1998

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

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