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.

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'...a welcome, thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the cultural history of madness...' - Elena Carrera Reviews in History

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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.

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Book Title: Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
Authors: Katharine Hodgkin
Series Title: Early Modern History: Society and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626423
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1765-2Published: 28 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51354-3Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62642-3Published: 28 November 2006
Series ISSN: 2947-9061
Series E-ISSN: 2947-907X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 266
Topics: European History, Modern History, European Literature, Social History, Cultural History, Historiography and Method

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