An archaeology of lunacy : managing madness in early nineteenth-century asylums / Katherine Fennelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fennelly, Katherine, author.

Series:

Social archaeology and material worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Psychiatric hospitals--Design and construction.

History.

Great Britain.

Medical Subjects:

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 177 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 ideas about reformed management practices for the insane were applied at ground level. Crucially, it moves beyond doctors and reformers, repopulating the asylum with the myriad characters that made up its everyday existence: keepers, clerks and patients. Contributing to archaeological scholarship on institutions of confinement, the book is aimed at academics, students and general readers interested in the material environment of the historic lunatic asylum.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

1526126494

9781526126498

OCLC:

1077483987