Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century: A Reader
by Allan Ingram
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Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalization of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake and Coleridge.Tags
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Allan Ingram is Professor of English at the University of Northumbria, UK.
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