Out of His Mind
Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain
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2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5503-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5503-0 (ISBN)
In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life. -- .
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men’s insanity. -- .
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men’s insanity. -- .
Amy Milne-Smith is Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University -- .
Introduction: Madmen in the attic?
1 Men in care: the asylum
2 Men in the community: homecare, doctor’s care, and travellers
3 Personal shame: failures of morality and the will
4 Madmen out of the attic: reputation, rage, and liberty
5 Media panics: stories of violence, danger, and men out of control
6 Degeneration and madness: inheritance, neurasthenia, criminals, and GPI
Epilogue -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender in History |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 black & white illustrations, 7 graphs, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5503-6 / 1526155036 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5503-0 / 9781526155030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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