Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum by Peschier, Diana

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788318075)

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Format: Hardcover
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Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum by Peschier, Diana

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum

$150.00
Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum by Peschier, Diana

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Diana Peschier
ISBN-10: 1788318072
ISBN-13: 9781788318075
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Diana Peschier
By Diana Peschier
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Diana Peschier holds a PhD from University of London. She is the author of Nineteenth-century Anti-Catholic Discourse: The Case of Charlotte Bronte (2005)

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