Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
Novel medicine : healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China / Andrew Schonebaum.
Schonebaum, Andrew, 1975-Date: [2016]- Books
Madness and the Romantic poet : a critical history / James Whitehead.
Whitehead, James (Writer on romanticism)Date: 2017- Journals
- Online
English literature in transition, 1880-1920
Date: 1963-2020- Journals
- Online
Criticism
Date: 1959-- Books
Aestheticism and the marriage market in Victorian popular fiction : the art of female beauty / by Kirby-Jane Hallum.
Hallum, Kirby-JaneDate: 2015