Women Madness And Spiritualism Susan Willis Fletcher
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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 Medical 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 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 Biography & Autobiography 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
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Author : Roy S. Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Women Madness And Spiritualism written by Roy S. 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 Mental health categories.
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.
Stones Of Law Bricks Of Shame
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Author : Frank Lauterbach
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Stones Of Law Bricks Of Shame written by Frank Lauterbach and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors to this volumen consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public.
Spiritualism Mesmerism And The Occult 1800 1920 Vol 3
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Author : Shane McCorristine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-17
Spiritualism Mesmerism And The Occult 1800 1920 Vol 3 written by Shane McCorristine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with History categories.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.
Spectres Of The Self
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Author : Shane McCorristine
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Spectres Of The Self written by Shane McCorristine and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with History categories.
Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Convict Voices
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Author : Anne Schwan
language : en
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Convict Voices written by Anne Schwan and has been published by University of New Hampshire Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and conventional literary texts, such as Adam Bede and The Moonstone. Not only does Schwan demonstrate strategies for interpreting ambivalent and often contradictory texts, she also provides a carefully historicized approach to the work of feminist recovery. Crossing class lines, genre boundaries, and gender roles in the effort to trace prisoners, authors, and female communities (imagined or real), Schwan brings new insight to what it means to locate feminist (or protofeminist) details, arguments, and politics. In this case, she tracks the emergence of a contested, and often contradictory, feminist consciousness, through the prism of nineteenth-century penal debates. The historical discussion is framed by reflections on contemporary debates about prisoner perspectives to illuminate continuities and differences. Convict Voices offers a sophisticated approach to interpretive questions of gender, genre, and discourse in the representation of female convicts and their voices and viewpoints.
The British National Bibliography
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Author : Arthur James Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Bibliography, National categories.