The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Alice Mauger

Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

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This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity.

ISBN-13
9783319652436
ISBN-10
3319652435
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-01-26
Pages
281
Dimensions
210x148x