01843oam 2200337 450 991077484950332120230808202405.0(CKB)3810000000208105(NjHacI)993810000000208105(EXLCZ)99381000000020810520201117c2016uuuu uu 0enguubu#---uu|uutxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierRemov'd from human eyesmadness and poetry 1676-1774Ilaria NataliFirenzeFirenze University Press20161 online resource (272 pages) Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ;30Includes bibliographical references and index.The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ;30.Great BritainPoetry821.6Natali Ilaria775005UkMaJRUBOOK9910774849503321Remov'd from human eyes1934320UNINA