9 avril 2019
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Laurence Dubois, « Claire Deligny: "Alienation, emancipation and the lunatic asylum model in Britain, c. 1845-1914" », Aliénation / émancipation, ID : 10.58079/d1mz
Based upon the analysis of three Lancashire asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich and Rainhill, this paper examines the evolution of the lunatic asylum model from 1845 to 1914. It first focuses on the linear narratives of asylum treatment in the mid-nineteenth century, hinged upon a teleological rationale equating confinement in asylums with the emancipation of the insane. It goes on to examine the elaboration of therapeutic landscapes across the three asylums, with the erection of the as...