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| Autore principale: | McDonagh, Patrick.
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| Titolo: | Idiocy : a cultural history / Patrick McDonagh. |
| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : Liverpool university press, 2008. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XIII, 369 p. ; 24 cm |
| Serie: | Representations: health, disability, culture and society |
| Contiene: | Indice: 1. Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations 2. Stripping our own hearts naked: William Wordsworth and John Wilson read The idiot boy 3. A pupil of innocent Nature!: the wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris 4. Diminished men: masculinity and idiocy 5. Essential women: femininity and idiocy 6. Holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin 7. History, society, economy: holy fools and idiots come home in nineteenth-century literature 8. Barnaby Rudge, idiocy and paternalism: assisting the poor idiot 9. Innocence, philanthropy and economics: the new asylum idiot 10. Sensational idiocy 11. The sins of the fathers: idiocy, evolution and degeneration 12. Danger and degeneracy: the threat of the urban idiot 13. The problem of the feeble-minded: the Royal Commission, eugenics and eternal chaos. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781846310966 |
| Discipline: | Malattie del sistema nervoso--Studi. Letteratura inglese--Studi. |
| Luoghi: | Inghilterra. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 18335 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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