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Bedlam

- London and its Mad
Af: Catharine Arnold Engelsk Paperback

Bedlam

- London and its Mad
Af: Catharine Arnold Engelsk Paperback
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''Bedlam!'' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake''s Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Bedlam, the latest addition to a freak show providing entertainment for Londoners between trips to the Tower Zoo, puppet shows and public executions.

That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam, over two centuries later, says much about our attitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirke''s impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum.

Following the historical narrative structure of her acclaimed Necropolis, BEDLAM examines the capital''s treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.
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''Bedlam!'' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake''s Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Bedlam, the latest addition to a freak show providing entertainment for Londoners between trips to the Tower Zoo, puppet shows and public executions.

That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam, over two centuries later, says much about our attitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirke''s impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum.

Following the historical narrative structure of her acclaimed Necropolis, BEDLAM examines the capital''s treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781847390004
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1847390005
Udg. Dato: 6 aug 2009
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 194mm
Forlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Oplagsdato: 6 aug 2009
Forfatter(e): Catharine Arnold
Forfatter(e) Catharine Arnold


Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie


ISBN-13 9781847390004


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 127mm


Højde 194mm


Udg. Dato 6 aug 2009


Oplagsdato 6 aug 2009


Forlag Simon & Schuster Ltd

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