Women And Madness And Spiritualism
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Women Madness And Spiritualism Georgina Weldon And Louisa Lowe
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2003
Women Madness And Spiritualism Georgina Weldon And Louisa Lowe written by Roy Porter and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Feminism categories.
This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women. New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era.
Women Madness And Spiritualism
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Author : Georgina Weldon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Women Madness And Spiritualism written by Georgina Weldon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Mentally ill women categories.
Women Madness And Spiritualism Susan Willis Fletcher
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2003
Women Madness And Spiritualism Susan Willis Fletcher written by Roy Porter and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Feminism categories.
This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women. New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era.
Women And Madness And Spiritualism
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Author : Georgina Weldon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women And Madness And Spiritualism written by Georgina Weldon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mentally ill women categories.
Women Madness And Sin In Early Modern England
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Author : Katharine Hodgkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Women Madness And Sin In Early Modern England written by Katharine Hodgkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course of her affliction and recovery and describes various delusions and confusions, concerned with (among other things) her family and her place within it; her relation to religion; and the status of the body, death and immortality. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also included are prefaces to the narrative written by Fitzherbert and others, and letters written shortly after her mental crisis, which develop her account of the episode. The edition will also give a modernized version of the original text. Katharine Hodgkin supplies a substantial introduction that places this autobiography in the context of current scholarship on early modern women, addressing the overarching issues in the field that this text touches upon. In an appendix to the volume, Hodgkin compares the two versions of the text, considering the grounds for the occasional exclusion or substitution of specific words or passages. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England adds an important new dimension to the field of early modern women studies.
Women Madness And Spiritualism Susan Willis Fletcher
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women Madness And Spiritualism Susan Willis Fletcher written by Roy Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mentally ill women categories.
Material Spirituality In Modernist Women S Writing
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Author : Elizabeth Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Material Spirituality In Modernist Women S Writing written by Elizabeth Anderson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public and rural spaces and stage the interaction between the sublime and the mundane. Ordinary things are rendered extraordinary by their spiritual or emotional significance, and yet their very ordinariness remains part of their value. This book addresses the intersection of spirituality, things and places – both natural and built environments – in the work of these four women modernists. From the living pebbles in Mary Butts's memoir to the pencil sought in Woolf's urban pilgrimage in 'Street Haunting', the Christmas decorations crafted by children in H.D.'s autobiographical novel The Gift and Maud Martha's love of dandelions in Brooks's only novel, things indicate spiritual concerns in these writers' work. Elizabeth Anderson contributes to current debates around materiality, vitalism and post-secularism, attending to both mainstream and heterodox spiritual expressions and connections between the two in modernism. How we value our spaces and our world being one of the most pressing contemporary ethical and ecological concerns, this volume contributes to the debate by arguing that a change in our attitude towards the environment will not come from a theory of renunciation but through attachment to and regard for material things.