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Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Madness in seventeenth-century autobiographyKatharine Hodgkin.
Author:	Hodgkin, Katharine,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	vi, 266 p.
Subject:	Mental Disordershistory.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230626423

Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography
Hodgkin, Katharine,1961-

Madness in seventeenth-century autobiography[electronic resource] /Katharine Hodgkin. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - vi, 266 p. - Early modern history : society and culture. - Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-257) and index.

PART I: MADNESS, WRITING, HISTORY -- Introduction: Studying the History of Madness -- Writingthe Mad Self -- PART II: EARLY MODERN MADNESS(i): THE DISORDERED MIND -- Being Mad: Melancholy, Distraction and Confusion of Mind -- Madness and the Feminine -- Doctors and Patients -- PART III: EARLYMODERN MADNESS (ii): RELIGION AND THE SELF -- The Christian Self: Problems of Hypocrisy and Despair-- Mad unto the World: Mid-Century Enthusiasm -- PART IV: MIND AND BODY: MADNESS AND THE SELF -- Inside and Outside: The Body and its Boundaries -- Beyond the Human Body-- Love and Power: The Self and Others -- Outward and Inward: The Selfin Motion.

What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This bookuses autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside.Looking at contemporary ideas about mental illness alongside a range of spiritual autobiographies from the period, it asks how some people came to be definedas insane when others with comparable symptoms were not, and what it meant to them. It engages with current debates about madness, gender, writing and the self, and investigates madness in relation to both culture and subjectivity. Three narratives are at the centre of the book, twoby women and one by a man; all were written in the context of seventeenth-century spiritual autobiography, but where the typical spiritual autobiography is concerned with the relationship to God, these accounts also focus on the human, offering insights into less familiar aspects ofearly modern subjectivity. With their vivid and immediate descriptionsof anxieties, delusions and desires, they illuminate not only madness in early modern culture, but also sanity, and demonstrate the fragilityof the boundary between the two.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230626423

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230626423doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

473436
Mental Disorders
--history.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: CT25 / .H635 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 920.009/032

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2008 J-589

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