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Middle-class fathers, sons, and mental illness in late Victorian and Edwardian England
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2024-03-25
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This article explores the impact of mental illness on the relationship between middle-class fathers and sons in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Using sources that include autobiographies, oral histories, press reports of violence, and records of appeals against conscription, the article argues that shame was not the dominant reaction. Many mentally ill men lost masculine status and agency within the family, but both fathers and sons were much more likely to respond to illness with loving concern, attempts at negotiation and pacification, than to use their power over vulnerable relatives with attempts to confine and hide them from sight.
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Ugolini, L. (2024) Middle-class fathers, sons, and mental illness in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Journal of Family History, 49(3), pp. 317-331.
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© 2024 The Authors. Published by SAGE. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990241240487
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0363-1990
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