Unclaimed Bodies, Feeble Minds in The Ballroom (2016): Anna Hope’s Visions of Asylum

Set in 1911, Anna Hope’s second novel gives visibility to those who ended up as lab rats in the hands of psychiatrists or would-be eugenicists and whose bodies went un(re)claimed. Through the figure of Dr. Fuller, a staunch admirer of Winston Churchill, Hope exposes the interplay between the medical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catherine Rovera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2017-10-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3779