Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

K. Hodgkin

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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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.

ISBN-13
9781349513543
ISBN-10
1349513547
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-01-01
Pages
266
Dimensions
215x139x20
Weight
364