SOURCE: "Madness," in Victorian Conventions, Ohio University Press, 1975, pp. 193-215.
In the following essay, Reed traces the connection between the growth of the Romantic movement in the early nineteenth century and the changing opinions among the medical community and the public regarding madness.
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