Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

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.

Author: K. Hodgkin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/28/2006
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.66w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781403917652

About the Author
KATHARINE HODGKIN teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published articles on various aspects of early modern cultural history, including gender, autobiography, madness, witchcraft and dreams, and co-edited with Susannah Radstone two volumes of essays on memory. She is currently preparing an edition of the writings of Dionys Fitzherbert.