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'Distracted Subjects' offers a feminist analysis of early modern madness. Carol Neely reveals the mobility & heterogeneity of discourses of 'distraction', the most common term for the condition in late 16th & early 17th century England.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2018Cornell University Press · 264 pages · 9781501729133
- Other · English · 2004Cornell University Press · 244 pages · 9780801442056
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