On Saturday July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau took a revolver to the Washington train station and fired twice at James A. Garfield with the intention of “removing” the president. The government, press, and pulpit responded immediately, offering an array of texts about the meaning…
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This project seeks to illuminate the relatively neglected subject of male madness in Victorian literature and culture, noting that at least half of the national asylum population in this period were men. Interdisciplinary sources include fiction, popular periodicals, psychiatric…
Through an analysis of records from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, this PhD thesis sheds new light on current understandings of the asylum, masculinity and the relationship between medicine and the law in late-Victorian England and Wales. The material consulted includes a da…