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OverviewThis book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insightsinto pre-modern attitudes towards insanity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark NeuendorfPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9783030843588ISBN 10: 3030843580 Pages: 297 Publication Date: 21 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart 1: Insanity and the Sentimental Emotional Regime, c. 1770–1800 2. ‘A Sight for Pity to Peruse’: The Spectacle of Madness in the Culture of Sensibility3. Inviolable Beauty: The Madwoman in the Sentimental Age Part 2: Lunacy Reform and the ‘Romantic’ Emotional Regime, c. 1790–1820 4. A ‘Forcible Appeal to Humanity’: Sympathising with the Insane in the Romantic Age5. Spectacles ‘Too Shocking for Description’: Sensationalism and the Politics of Lunacy Reform in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain6. ‘Noble Feelings and Manly Spirit’: Indignation, Public Spirit and the Makings of an Asylum Revolution7. Conclusion: An ‘Active Spirit of Humanity’? Emotions and the History of Asylum ReformReviewsAuthor InformationMark Neuendorf is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research examines the emotions and print cultures of British psychiatry, with a particular focus on the emergence of organised psychiatric reform. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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