'Tales of Wonder and Horror': Subject of Insanity in the Leeds Newspaper Press Miscellanies During the Late Georgian Era.
This article explores the way in which leading Yorkshire newspapers, the Leeds Intelligencer and the Leeds Mercury, portrayed mental illness during the late Georgian era. In this period, newspapers were a central forum of public debate, yet a comprehensive analysis of the way they represented mental...
| Publicado en: | Northern History Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 215 - 229 |
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