How Long to Read Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England

How Long Does it Take to Read Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.

How long is Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England?

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England aloud.

What Reading Level is Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England?

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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