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Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum / Diana Peschier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Place, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages, 8 pages of plates) : portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1786736608
  • 9781786736604
  • 9781786726544
  • 1786726548
  • 9781788318082
  • 1788318080
  • 1788318072
  • 9781788318075
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lost Souls : Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum.DDC classification:
  • 362.20820941 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.W6 P484 2019eb
NLM classification:
  • WM 11 FA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions -- Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum -- Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement -- Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls -- Chapter Five: Physical Illness -- Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Sources.
Summary: "How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.

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"How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves."-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions -- Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum -- Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement -- Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls -- Chapter Five: Physical Illness -- Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Sources.

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