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Bathing Tub
Bethlem Hospital
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Common Language
Compos Mentis
cox
cruden
discourse analysis
Discursive Practices
eighteenth-century literature
English Malady
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George III
hannah
haslam
history of psychiatry
Holy Mountain
Iron Gate
James Carkesse
john
joseph
Jubilate Agno
language and madness research
Mad Language
Mad Mind
Mad Writing
mason
medical humanities
mental illness narratives
Merops Apiaster
patient writing studies
private
Private Madhouse
Serene World
Sir Eustace Grey
Sir Launcelot
Smart's Poem
St George's Fields
St Luke's Hospital
Water Fall
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415755184
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
