Prisons, Asylums, and the Public: Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century - Brossura

Miron, Janet

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ISBN 10: 0802095135 ISBN 13: 9780802095138

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2011

Riassunto

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters, diaries, and articles. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these visitors were not members of the medical or legal elite but were ordinary people.

Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the perspectives of officials, the public, and the institutionalized. Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Janet Miron is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Trent University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802095135
• ISBN 13: 9780802095138
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254