Sarah Wise
Vintage Publishing
e druk, 2013
9780099541868
Inconvenient People
Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
Specificaties
Paperback, 496 blz.
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EN
Vintage Publishing |
2013
ISBN13: 9780099541868
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
Uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the 'inconvenient person'.