Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820

Mark Neuendorf is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research examines the emotions and print cultures of British psychiatry, with a particular focus on the emergence of organised psychiatric reform.

• 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Insanity and the Sentimental Emotional Regime, c. 1770–1800.- 2. ‘A Sight for Pity to Peruse’: The Spectacle of Madness in the Culture of Sensibility.- 3. Inviolable Beauty: The Madwoman in the Sentimental Age.- Part 2: Lunacy Reform and the ‘Romantic’ Emotional Regime, c. 1790–1820.- 4. A ‘Forcible Appeal to Humanity’: Sympathising with the Insane in the Romantic Age.- 5. Spectacles ‘Too Shocking for Description’: Sensationalism and the Politics of Lunacy Reform in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain.- 6. ‘Noble Feelings and Manly Spirit’: Indignation, Public Spirit and the Makings of an Asylum Revolution.- 7. Conclusion: An ‘Active Spirit of Humanity’? Emotions and the History of Asylum Reform.