The image of idiocy in nineteenth-century England : a history of cultural representations of intellectual disability
Over the nineteenth century, the popular and the scientific understanding of idiocy changed in conjunction with shifts in social concerns and the emergence of new discourses. An examination of representations of idiocy over the century foregrounds the manner in which the condition was given shape an...
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1998
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| Online Access: | http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/534/1/NQ39628.pdf McDonagh, Patrick <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/McDonagh=3APatrick=3A=3A.html> (1998) The image of idiocy in nineteenth-century England : a history of cultural representations of intellectual disability. PhD thesis, Concordia University. |