Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era

by Peter McCandless

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless shows how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. He also sheds new light on the ways sectionalism and race affected the plight of the insane in a state whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845582
• ISBN13: 9780807845585
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.4"