BEDLAM: LONDON AND ITS MADNESS

Book ID/图书代码： 12290008B24410

English Summary/英文概要： ’Bedlam!’ The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake’s Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Bedlam, the latest addition to a freak show providing entertainment for Londoners between trips to the Tower Zoo, puppet shows and public executions.
That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam, over two centuries later, says much about our attitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirke’s impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum.
Following the historical narrative structure of her acclaimed Necropolis, Bedlam will examine the capital’s treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一提到"精神病院"，浮现在人们脑海里的就是浑身赤裸的精神病人的形象，他们被链条锁住，困在臭气冲天的稻草丛中，或是成群结队地向无人看管的病房行进，以为自己是拿破仑或耶稣。我们会把疯人锁定为这样的形象得归功于威廉·贺加斯。他在《1753游子历程》系列中，描述了精神病院里一个反英雄的形象。这一系列丛书是对一个怪诞表演秀的最新补充，为奔波于动物园，木偶戏，公共活动之间的伦敦人提供些娱资。
两个多世纪过去了，贺加斯笔下的精神病院的形象依然是最有影响力的，这在很大程度上说明了我们对精神病的态度，尽管人们想象中的那样不堪入目的精神病院早已不复存在了。医院于1930年搬迁到肯郡的郊区，悉尼斯默克位于南华克的维多利亚时代的建筑给游客极大的视觉享受，不过也开始扮演新的角色——帝国战争博物馆。
《精神病院》延续了作者广受好评的《大墓地》的历史叙述结构，审视了几世纪来首都人民对精神病人的态度，从1247年伯利恒医院的建立，到维多利亚精神病院的全盛时期，再到今天盛行的更加开明的态度。(zyt)

Awards/获奖情况："Entertainment of the most garish and exquisite kind... A baedeker of the dead"---Peter Ackroyd, The Times
"Luminous and often touching details crowd these pages... Well-researched and elegantly writter"---Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph
"Fascinating"---Financial Times
"Grimly entertaining Arnold’s book abounds in deliciously uncanny detail"---Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday
“精致细腻，极渲染之能事，绝对的娱乐...已故者的旅行指南。”——Peter Ackroyd,《泰晤士报》
“全书充满着明晰清楚的细节，时不时地让你感动不已...调查严密，文笔优美。”——梅勒尼·麦格拉斯，《星期日电讯报》
“不可思议！”——《金融时报》
“阿诺德的书总是充满着大量神秘美妙的细节，让人感到愉悦，不过有时却又让人不寒而栗。”——Suzi Feay,《星期日独立报》

About the Author/作者介绍： CATHARINE ARNOLD read English at Cambridge University and holds a further degree in psychology. Ajournalist, academic and historian, catharine’s previous books include the novel Lost Time and the acclaimed Necropolist: London and Its Dead, also available from Simon & Schuster/Pocket Book. She lives in Nottingham.
凯瑟琳·阿诺德曾在剑桥大学攻读英语，后又获得心理学学位。她是一名新闻记者，学者，历史学家。她前期的著作包括小说《逝去的时间》及颇受欢迎的《大墓地：伦敦和伦敦的亡灵》。

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