Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century

Content: Introduction - Serena Trowbridge and Thomas Knowles  Part I: Literary  1 \'Horrible Dens of Deception\': Thomas Bakewell, Thomas Mulock and Anti-Asylum Sentiments, c.1815-58 - Rebecca Wynter  2 \'This Most Noble of Disorders\': Matilda Betham on the Reformation of the Madhouse - Elaine Bailey  3 The Legacy of Victorian Asylums in the Landscape of Contemporary British Literature - Thomas Knowles  Part II: Quantitative  4 Building a Lunatic Asylum: \'A Question of Beer, Milk and the Irish\' - Bernard Melling  5 \'Just Can\'t Work Them Hard Enough\': A Historical Bioarcheological Study of the Inmate Experience at the Oneida County Asylum - Shawn Phillips  6 \'Always Remember that you are in your Senses\': From Keeper to Attendant to Nurse - Claire Chatterton  7 \'Atrophied\', \'Engorged\', \'Debauched\': Muscle Wastage, Degenerate Mass and Moral Worth in the General Paralytic Patient - Jennifer Wallis  Part III: Cultural  8 \'Attitudes Passionelles\': The Pornographic Spaces of the Salpetriere - Amanda Finelli  9 \'The Poison that Upsets my Reason\': Men, Madness and Drunkenness in the Victorian Period - Kostas Makras  10 \'Madness and masculinity\': Male Patients in London Asylums and Victorian Culture - Helen Goodman  11 \'Straitjacket\': A Confined History - Will Wiles