Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MadLand (Madness in Fairy Land: (Re)Imagining Deviance in the Age of Psychiatry, 1820-1900)

The MadLand project investigates literature’s creative reaction to the rigid dividing lines between (hetero)normativity and deviance as established by early psychiatry, then incorporated into the dominant cultural discourse, and still very much debated today. In its...