Archaeology of Lunacy
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'In this book Katherine Fennelly provides one of the first glimpses into the world of early lunatic asylums in Ireland and England. [… it] is an interesting, scholarly study of a field of growing interest among academics and the general public. It is well worth reading.'
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Antiquity
'An Archaeology of Lunacy is a modest but useful addition to the literature on the peculiar world of the nineteenth- century asylum.'
Andrew Scull, Victorian Studies
An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period. Examining architecture and material culture, the book proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 200
- ISBN
- 9781526126498
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«
'In this book Katherine Fennelly provides one of the first glimpses into the world of early lunatic asylums in Ireland and England. [… it] is an interesting, scholarly study of a field of growing interest among academics and the general public. It is well worth reading.'
» .
Antiquity
'An Archaeology of Lunacy is a modest but useful addition to the literature on the peculiar world of the nineteenth- century asylum.'
Andrew Scull, Victorian Studies