Voices from the Asylum

Voices from the Asylum
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780199579358
ISBN-13 : 0199579350
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Book Synopsis Voices from the Asylum by : Susannah Wilson

Download or read book Voices from the Asylum written by Susannah Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir.


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