Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9781040248836
ISBN-13 : 1040248837
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Synopsis Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4 by : Leigh Wetherall Dickson

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 2

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 2
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781040244814
ISBN-13 : 1040244815
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Synopsis Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 2 by : Leigh Wetherall Dickson

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 1

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 1
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781040239667
ISBN-13 : 1040239668
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 1 by : Leigh Wetherall Dickson

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 3

Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 3
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781040243732
ISBN-13 : 1040243738
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 3 by : Leigh Wetherall Dickson

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781526129024
ISBN-13 : 1526129027
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Synopsis Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834 by : Steven King

At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and institutionalised became part of the norm for the sick poor by the 1820s, in a way that had not been the case in the 1750s. Exploring the lives and medical experiences of the poor largely in their own words, Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the so-called crisis of the Old Poor Law from the later eighteenth century. The sick poor became an insistent presence in the lives of officials and parishes and the (largely positive) way that communities responded to their dire needs must cause us to rethink the role and character of the poor law.

Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s

Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780773556508
ISBN-13 : 0773556508
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s by : Steven King

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled. Investigating the way that people experienced and shaped the English and Welsh welfare system through the use of almost 26,000 pauper letters and the correspondence of overseers in forty-eight counties, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s reconstructs the process by which the poor claimed, extended, or defended their parochial allowances. Challenging preconceptions about literacy, power, social structure, and the agency of ordinary people, these stories suggest that advocates, officials, and the poor shared a common linguistic register and an understanding of how far welfare decisions could be contested and negotiated. King shifts attention away from traditional approaches to construct an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of poor law administration and popular writing at the turn of the nineteenth century. At a time when the western European welfare model is under sustained threat, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s takes us back to its deepest roots to demonstrate that the signature of a strong welfare system is malleability.

Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World

Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781137490988
ISBN-13 : 1137490985
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World by : A. Ryrie

Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions.

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781137597182
ISBN-13 : 1137597186
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture by : Allan Ingram

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.

Enlightening enthusiasm

Enlightening enthusiasm
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781784996635
ISBN-13 : 1784996637
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Enlightening enthusiasm by : Lionel Laborie

In the early modern period, the term ‘enthusiasm’ was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents of the Enlightenment used it more widely against Paracelsian chemists, experimental philosophers, religious dissenters and divines, astrologers or anyone claiming superior knowledge. But who exactly were these enthusiasts? What did they believe in and what impact did they have on their contemporaries? This book concentrates on the notorious case of the French Prophets as the epitome of religious enthusiasm in early Enlightenment England. Based on new archival research, it retraces the formation, development and evolution of their movement and sheds new light on key contemporary issues such as millenarianism, censorship and the press, blasphemy, dissent and toleration, and madness.

Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781137487636
ISBN-13 : 1137487631
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse by : Allan Ingram

This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.