Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography

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Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography is written by K. Hodgkin and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230626424 (ISBN 10) and 9780230626423 (ISBN 13).

What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.