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Title:

THE MADHOUSE OF LANGUAGE
WRITING AND READING MADNESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

By:

Allan Ingram

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Hardback

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0415031907

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9780415031905

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

20 February, 1992

Pages:

216

Description:

This monograph examines the history of writing about madness as seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes towards language were endorsed by rigorous treatment of the insane.

Synopsis:

Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.

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