'Religious Fanaticism' and Wrongful Confinement in Victorian England: The Affair of Louisa Nottidge

Schwieso, Joshua

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“…Schwieso complicates the narrative of Louisa Nottidge's imprisonment in an asylum over her embrace of a millenarian sect. He emphasizes the precarious reputation of early 19th‐century psychiatry and emphasizes the ambiguous power dynamics between doctors and patients (1996). These portraits reveal complex and contested understandings of madness and patriarchal rights.…”

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Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain

Milne‐Smith

2022

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For decades, the history of gender and madness was a story about women. Individuals deemed lunatics were universally treated as passive victims of medio‐legal forces beyond their control. New generations of scholars have looked beyond power binaries to interrogate the complex network of gender, class, family, and culture to place ‘the mad’ as historical actors in a complex and often contradictory story. This article reflects on some major themes in the British historiography of Victorian gender and madness since the mid‐20th century. It highlights how feminist and anti‐psychiatrist interdisciplinary works inspired new generations of historians to place gender at the forefront of studies of medical discourse about madness, lunatic asylums, and the experiences of those deemed insane. Recent literature on the history of gender and madness places itself as key to not only the history of medicine, but the history of Victorian Britain in general.

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Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain

Milne‐Smith

2022

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Religion, Culture and Mental Health

Loewenthal

2006

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Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage clinical levels of obsessional behaviour? And are religious people happier than others? By merging the growing information on religion and mental health with that on culture and mental health, Kate Loewenthal enables fresh perspectives on these questions. This book deals with different psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, manic disorders, depression, anxiety, somatisation and dissociation as well as positive states of mind, and analyses the religious and cultural influences on each.

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Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914

Strange

2005

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With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The 2005 book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history.

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'Religious Fanaticism' and Wrongful Confinement in Victorian England: The Affair of Louisa Nottidge

Cited by 15 publications

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Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain

Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain

Religion, Culture and Mental Health

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914

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