An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period. Examining architecture and material culture, the book proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. It looks at the planning and construction of the first public asylums and assesses the extent to which popular id...
Tabella dei contenuti
1 Introduction
2 Management
3 Administration
4 Movement
5 Conclusions
Index
Circa l’autore
Katherine Fennelly is Lecturer in Heritage at the University of Lincoln
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 200 ● ISBN 9781526126511 ● Dimensione 1.2 MB ● Casa editrice Manchester University Press ● Città Manchester ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2019 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7109853 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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