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