The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Alice Mauger

Springer International Publishing AG, 2019

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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
9783319879833
ISBN-10
3319879839
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-06-04
Pages
281
Dimensions
147x209x24
Weight
396