Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

by Katharine Hodgkin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349513547
• ISBN13: 9781349513543
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"