Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

by K. Hodgkin

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781403917652
  • Publish Date 28 November 2006 (first published 1 January 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition 2007 ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 266
  • Language English