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Bedlam: London and Its Mad
Bedlam London and Its Mad
Author: Catharine Arnold
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Bedlam, the latest addition to a freak show p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781847370006
ISBN-10: 1847370004
Publication Date: 8/4/2008
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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