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Inconvenient People
Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
Taschenbuch von Sarah Wise
Sprache: Englisch

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A highly original book which exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy in the Victorian period, and the dark motivations behind them...
A highly original book which exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy in the Victorian period, and the dark motivations behind them...
Über den Autor

Sarah Wise has an MA in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College. She teaches 19th-century social history and literature to both undergraduates and adult learners, and is visiting professor at the University of Californiäs London Study Center, and a guest lecturer at City University.
Her interests are London/urban history, working-class history, medical history, psychogeography, 19th-century literature and reportage.
Her website is [...]

Her most recent book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England (Bodley Head), was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014.

Her 2004 debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (Jonathan Cape), was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Her follow-up The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

Sarah was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair's compendium London, City of Disappearances (2006). She has contributed to the TLS, History Today, BBC History magazine, the Literary Review, the FT and the Daily Telegraph. She discussed bodysnatching for BBC2¿s History Cold Case series; provided background material for BBC1¿s Secret History of Our Streets; and spoke about Broadmoor Hospital on Channel 5¿s programme on that institution.She has been a guest on Radio 4¿s All in the Mind, Radio 3¿s Night Waves and the Guardian¿s Books Podcast about 19th-century mental health.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780099541868
ISBN-10: 0099541866
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wise, Sarah
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Maße: 198 x 128 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Wise
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2013
Gewicht: 0,461 kg
preigu-id: 113493280
Über den Autor

Sarah Wise has an MA in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College. She teaches 19th-century social history and literature to both undergraduates and adult learners, and is visiting professor at the University of Californiäs London Study Center, and a guest lecturer at City University.
Her interests are London/urban history, working-class history, medical history, psychogeography, 19th-century literature and reportage.
Her website is [...]

Her most recent book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England (Bodley Head), was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014.

Her 2004 debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (Jonathan Cape), was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Her follow-up The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.

Sarah was a major contributor to Iain Sinclair's compendium London, City of Disappearances (2006). She has contributed to the TLS, History Today, BBC History magazine, the Literary Review, the FT and the Daily Telegraph. She discussed bodysnatching for BBC2¿s History Cold Case series; provided background material for BBC1¿s Secret History of Our Streets; and spoke about Broadmoor Hospital on Channel 5¿s programme on that institution.She has been a guest on Radio 4¿s All in the Mind, Radio 3¿s Night Waves and the Guardian¿s Books Podcast about 19th-century mental health.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 496
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780099541868
ISBN-10: 0099541866
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wise, Sarah
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Maße: 198 x 128 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Wise
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2013
Gewicht: 0,461 kg
preigu-id: 113493280
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