Patterns of Madness in 18th Century: A Reader

by Allan Ingram (Editor)

Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalization of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake and Coleridge.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998