ELH., Volume 72Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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Page 774
... asylum medicine - a philosophy that saw social norms and cultural tendencies as medical issues . In the heyday of the moral treatment movement , asylum care was conceived as the cure for a wide range of behavioral problems , from ...
... asylum medicine - a philosophy that saw social norms and cultural tendencies as medical issues . In the heyday of the moral treatment movement , asylum care was conceived as the cure for a wide range of behavioral problems , from ...
Page 781
... asylum was the rise of asylum exposés in popular literature , in which the physicians ' claims to expertise , benevolence , and extraordinary success were shown to cover up random experi- mentation with drugs , mad power plays ...
... asylum was the rise of asylum exposés in popular literature , in which the physicians ' claims to expertise , benevolence , and extraordinary success were shown to cover up random experi- mentation with drugs , mad power plays ...
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... asylum , with its removal from the chaotic buzz of the city , emphasized restoring a premodern stability to social relations , which was characterized as normative : the superintendent was the kindly father or feudal lord , and his ...
... asylum , with its removal from the chaotic buzz of the city , emphasized restoring a premodern stability to social relations , which was characterized as normative : the superintendent was the kindly father or feudal lord , and his ...
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Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester | 553 |
Shelleys Uncertain Heaven | 577 |
Everyday War | 605 |
Copyright | |
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