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| Author | : David Russell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : 9781873853399 |
In 1997, the Bethlam Royal Hospital will be 750 years old. This text presents glimpses of life in Bethlam Royal Hospital, Britain's longest-established mental institution. It offers an insight into the changes made to the treatment of the mentally disordered.
| Author | : Derek Landy |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0008303975 |
The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything...
| Author | : Jonathan Andrews |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 758 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136098526 |
Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.
| Author | : Nell Leyshon |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2010-09-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1849436711 |
Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl. Nell Leyshon's new play is an anarchic tale of madness and sanity, authority and incarceration and the arbitrary lines that separate them. Full of violence, romance and reverie, Bedlam will make history this September when it becomes the first ever production by a female writer to be staged at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
| Author | : Terry Trainor |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2012-05-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1471714241 |
The lunatics were first called "patients" in 1700, and "curable" and "incurable" wards were opened in 1725-34. In the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare at the lunatics. For a penny one could peer into their cells, view the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem" and laugh at their antics, generally of a sexual nature or violent fights. Entry was free on the first Tuesday of the month. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 such visits. 'It was so loathsomely and filthily kept that it was not fit for any man or woman to come into. Situated variously in Bishopsgate, Moorfields and Lambeth, one of the main attractions over the centuries for the London mob was the Bethlehem Royal Hospital or Bedlam'.
| Author | : Paul Goring |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2004-12-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139456768 |
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. Paul Goring shows how diverse writers and performers including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence - bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values.
| Author | : R. Burt |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230614566 |
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media contextualizes historical films in an innovative way - not only relating them to the history of cinema, but also to premodern and early modern media. This philological approach to the (pre)history of cinema engages both old media such as scrolls, illuminated manuscripts, the Bayeux Tapestry, and new digital media such as DVDs, HD DVDs, and computers. Burt examines the uncanny repetitions that now fragment films into successively released alternate cuts and extras (footnote tracks, audiocommentaries, and documentaries) that (re)structure and reframe historical films, thereby presenting new challenges to historicist criticism and film theory. With a double focus on recursive narrative frames and the cinematic paratexts of medieval and early modern film, this book calls our attention to strange, sometimes opaque phenomena in film and literary theory that have previously gone unrecognized.
| Author | : Mike Jay |
| Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2016-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0500773629 |
Is mental illness or madness at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Moving and sometimes provocative illustrations and photographs, sourced from the Wellcome Collection's extensive archives and the archives of mental institutions in Europe and the U.S., illuminate and reinforce the compelling narrative, while extensive gallery sections present revealing and thought-provoking artworks by asylum patients and other artists from each era of the institution and beyond.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 722 |
| Release | : 1902 |
| Genre | : Yorkshire (England) |
| ISBN | : |
A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county.
