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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
About this book
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.
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Yes, you can access Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by K. Hodgkin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Studying the History of Madness
- 2 Crises of the Self: Madness and Autobiographical Writing
- 3 Without Sense and Understanding: Concepts of Madness in Early Modern Thought
- 4 Melancholy: A Land of Darkness
- 5 Mad Unto the World: Spiritual and Mental Disturbances
- 6 The Thread Out of the Labyrinth: The Experience of Cure
- 7 Inside and Outside: The Body and its Boundaries
- 8 Beyond the Human Body: Life, Death and the Devil
- 9 Family Histories: The Self and Others
- 10 Love and Desire: Disordered Passions
- 11 Conclusion: Writing out of the Labyrinth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index