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