Bedlam : London and its Mad

Bedlam : London and its Mad

Catharine Arnold

Betyg2.5
Språken
FörlagSimon & Schuster UK
ISBN9781847374875

'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 i