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02117aam a2200337Ia 4500 001 163EA7B269C811E69620BACFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160824014144 008 080929s2008 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781846310966 020 $a 1846310962 020 $a 1846310954 (cased) 020 $a 9781846310959 (cased) 035 $a (OCoLC)259254939 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d GUA $d FUG $d NDD $d VVC $d IWA $d SILO 100 1 $a McDonagh, Patrick. 245 10 $a Idiocy : $b a cultural history / $c Patrick McDonagh. 260 $a Liverpool : $b Liverpool University Press, $c 2008. 300 $a xiii, 369 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Representations: health, disability, culture and society 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-359) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: idiocy, culture and human relations -- 'Stripping our own hearts naked': William Wordsworth and John Wilson read 'The idiot boy' -- A 'pupil of innocent nature!' The wild boy of Aveyron goes to Paris -- Diminished men: masculinity and idiocy -- Essential women: feminity and idiocy -- Holy fools, witty fools, depraved fools: folly, innocence and sin -- History, society, economy: holy fools and idiots come home in nineteenth-century literature -- Barnaby Rudge, idiocy and paternalism: assisting the 'poor idiot' -- Innocence, philanthropy and economics: the new 'asylum' idiot -- Sensational idiocy -- 'The sins of the fathers': idiocy, evolution and degeneration -- Danger and degeneracy: the threat of the urban idiot -- The problem of the feeble-minded: the Royal Commission, eugenics and eternal chaos -- Epilogue. 650 0 $a Mental retardation $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Learning disabilities $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Cognition disorders $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a People with mental disabilities $z Great Britain $x History. $x History. 830 0 $a Representations (Liverpool, England) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824085715.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=163EA7B269C811E69620BACFDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search