Reading Madness: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880s by Catharine Coleborne (9781920845346)

Description - Reading Madness: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880s by Catharine Coleborne

Examines and analyses the archive of texts produced in and around a rural asylum in Beechworth, Victoria, from the 1848 establishment of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum to the 1888 Zox Commission.

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Reading Madness: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880s

Catharine Coleborne

Description - Reading Madness: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1880s by Catharine Coleborne

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