2021-03-01 at 15:14:59
Soukayna Alami from University of Debrecen
will present The Incarceration of Mabel Etchell and The Power of Masculinity in Ten Years in a Lunatic Asylum
Abstract
In this paper, through Mabel Etchell’s fictional account Ten Years in a Lunatic Asylum, I investigate the power of masculinity and its role in the confinement of Etchell in a mental asylum. The paper also examines the connection between love and abandonment and mental illness, focusing on social relations as the cause of insanity
Keywords: Abandonment, power, masculinity, mental illness, Etchell, nineteenth-century asylum

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