Amy Milne‐smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Milne‐smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Milne‐smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9330-8853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Soldiers, Alcohol, and Insanity at Richmond Asylum, 1860s–1900s
This article examines the role of alcohol in the etiology of madness through a case study of soldiers and veterans at Richmond Asylum in Dublin. It argues that the diagnostic process was a complex practice informed by medical and military authorities and patient and family histories. Like any medical records, Richmond casebooks are mediated through the medical gaze, but they do contain significant glimpses into what role patients and families bel…
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900
Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain
For decades, the history of gender and madness was a story about women. Individuals deemed lunatics were universally treated as passive victims of medio‐legal forces beyond their control. New generations of scholars have looked beyond power binaries to interrogate the complex network of gender, class, family, and culture to place ‘the mad’ as historical actors in a complex and often contradictory story. This article reflects on some major themes …
The Athenaeum: More than Just Another London Club, by Michael Wheeler
Crippen: A Crime Sensation in Memory and Modernity, by Roger Dalrymple
Dr H.H. Crippen was found guilty of murdering and dismembering his wife in 1910. He never confessed to the crime, and parts of Cora Crippen’s body (including her head) were never found. The trial was an Edwardian sensation, full of drama which included a cross-dressing lover, an attempted transatlantic flight, and even false confessions by a dubious lawyer. Roger Dalrymple’s text is not only a case-study of this gruesome crime but, more important…
The five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
The lives of Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly may well have passed unnoticed into the faceless history of Victorian London were it not for how they died in the autumn of 1888. Now known as the ‘canonical five’, Polly, Annie, Liz, Catherine, and Mary Jane are the infamous victims of the serial killer, Jack the Ripper
Work and Madness: Overworked Men and Fears of Degeneration, 1860s–1910s
The very things that provided a Victorian man's status, his self worth, and his identity could also lead him to lose his mind. This paradox is at the heart of this essay. Men breaking down under the pressure of hard work was disruptive in a society that was dependent on that overwork. This idea preoccupied Victorians, who worried that the pace of modern life could lead to broken nerves, low spirits, nervous collapse, and even suicide. Both doctor…
Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways, 1860–80
Journal Article Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways, 1860–80 Get access Amy Milne-Smith Amy Milne-Smith 1Wilfred Laurier University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 2016, Pages 21–39, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1118851 Published: 01 March 2016
Benjamin B. Cohen. In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South Asia
The importance of clublife in the British Empire is so widely acknowledged as to have become clichéd. Clubs were integral to British and imperial life and they are mentioned in countless works detailing the social, political, and sporting sides of life. There are articles on clubs and sporting cultures around the world, on race and imperial club identities, on clubbability and Britishness in the colony, and on literary representations of imperial…
Balfour’s World: Aristocracy and Political Culture and the Fin de Siècle . By Nancy W. Ellenberger
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness , by Laure Murat
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness, by Laure Murat, translated by Deke Dusinberre. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii, 288 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). First published in French in 2011, Laure Murat's highly acclaimed work has been translated and published for an English readership. The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is a story of the manifestations and interpretations of madness amidst the pol…
Queensberry’s Misrule: Reputation, Celebrity, and the Idea of the Victorian Gentleman
To Victorians, the Marquis of Queensberry was a well-known aristocrat. As the father of Lord Alfred Douglas and the nemesis of Oscar Wilde, Queensberry was the impetus behind Wilde’s legal troubles. He is also renowned as the eponym of boxing’s first, and most famous rulebook. As a man who flouted every prescription for gentlemanly conduct, he provoked a variety of reactions. The working-class response to the Marquis, for example, suggests a more…
Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France , by Leora Auslander
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness , by Mark S. Micale
"Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, by Mark S. Micale.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(2), pp. 365–366
Club Talk: Gossip, Masculinity and Oral Communities in Late Nineteenth-Century London
Gossip is not only a guilty pleasure; it is also an important tool of social control. Nowhere is this more evident than in the nineteenth-century gentlemen's clubs of London. This article looks at the private lives of elite men whose gossip helped shape class and gender ideals. Archival documents, private memoirs and periodical literature provide both an insider and outsider vision of a very private world. Looking at how men gossiped points to co…
A Flight to Domesticity? Making a Home in the Gentlemen's Clubs of London, 1880–1914
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A Flight to Domesticity? Making a Home in the Gentlemen's Clubs of London, 1880–1914
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Club Talk: Gossip, Masculinity and Oral Communities in Late Nineteenth-Century London
Gossip is not only a guilty pleasure; it is also an important tool of social control. Nowhere is this more evident than in the nineteenth-century gentlemen's clubs of London. This article looks at the private lives of elite men whose gossip helped shape class and gender ideals. Archival documents, private memoirs and periodical literature provide both an insider and outsider vision of a very private world. Looking at how men gossiped points to co…
Work and Madness: Overworked Men and Fears of Degeneration, 1860s–1910s
The very things that provided a Victorian man's status, his self worth, and his identity could also lead him to lose his mind. This paradox is at the heart of this essay. Men breaking down under the pressure of hard work was disruptive in a society that was dependent on that overwork. This idea preoccupied Victorians, who worried that the pace of modern life could lead to broken nerves, low spirits, nervous collapse, and even suicide. Both doctor…
Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain
For decades, the history of gender and madness was a story about women. Individuals deemed lunatics were universally treated as passive victims of medio‐legal forces beyond their control. New generations of scholars have looked beyond power binaries to interrogate the complex network of gender, class, family, and culture to place ‘the mad’ as historical actors in a complex and often contradictory story. This article reflects on some major themes …
A Flight to Domesticity? Making a Home in the Gentlemen's Clubs of London, 1880–1914
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness , by Mark S. Micale
"Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, by Mark S. Micale.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(2), pp. 365–366
Club Talk: Gossip, Masculinity and Oral Communities in Late Nineteenth-Century London
Gossip is not only a guilty pleasure; it is also an important tool of social control. Nowhere is this more evident than in the nineteenth-century gentlemen's clubs of London. This article looks at the private lives of elite men whose gossip helped shape class and gender ideals. Archival documents, private memoirs and periodical literature provide both an insider and outsider vision of a very private world. Looking at how men gossiped points to co…
Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France , by Leora Auslander
Queensberry’s Misrule: Reputation, Celebrity, and the Idea of the Victorian Gentleman
To Victorians, the Marquis of Queensberry was a well-known aristocrat. As the father of Lord Alfred Douglas and the nemesis of Oscar Wilde, Queensberry was the impetus behind Wilde’s legal troubles. He is also renowned as the eponym of boxing’s first, and most famous rulebook. As a man who flouted every prescription for gentlemanly conduct, he provoked a variety of reactions. The working-class response to the Marquis, for example, suggests a more…
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness , by Laure Murat
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness, by Laure Murat, translated by Deke Dusinberre. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii, 288 pp. $45.00 US (cloth). First published in French in 2011, Laure Murat's highly acclaimed work has been translated and published for an English readership. The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is a story of the manifestations and interpretations of madness amidst the pol…
Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways, 1860–80
Journal Article Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways, 1860–80 Get access Amy Milne-Smith Amy Milne-Smith 1Wilfred Laurier University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 2016, Pages 21–39, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1118851 Published: 01 March 2016
Benjamin B. Cohen. In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South Asia
The importance of clublife in the British Empire is so widely acknowledged as to have become clichéd. Clubs were integral to British and imperial life and they are mentioned in countless works detailing the social, political, and sporting sides of life. There are articles on clubs and sporting cultures around the world, on race and imperial club identities, on clubbability and Britishness in the colony, and on literary representations of imperial…
Balfour’s World: Aristocracy and Political Culture and the Fin de Siècle . By Nancy W. Ellenberger
Work and Madness: Overworked Men and Fears of Degeneration, 1860s–1910s
The very things that provided a Victorian man's status, his self worth, and his identity could also lead him to lose his mind. This paradox is at the heart of this essay. Men breaking down under the pressure of hard work was disruptive in a society that was dependent on that overwork. This idea preoccupied Victorians, who worried that the pace of modern life could lead to broken nerves, low spirits, nervous collapse, and even suicide. Both doctor…
The five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper
The lives of Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly may well have passed unnoticed into the faceless history of Victorian London were it not for how they died in the autumn of 1888. Now known as the ‘canonical five’, Polly, Annie, Liz, Catherine, and Mary Jane are the infamous victims of the serial killer, Jack the Ripper
Crippen: A Crime Sensation in Memory and Modernity, by Roger Dalrymple
Dr H.H. Crippen was found guilty of murdering and dismembering his wife in 1910. He never confessed to the crime, and parts of Cora Crippen’s body (including her head) were never found. The trial was an Edwardian sensation, full of drama which included a cross-dressing lover, an attempted transatlantic flight, and even false confessions by a dubious lawyer. Roger Dalrymple’s text is not only a case-study of this gruesome crime but, more important…
Gender and madness in nineteenth‐century Britain
For decades, the history of gender and madness was a story about women. Individuals deemed lunatics were universally treated as passive victims of medio‐legal forces beyond their control. New generations of scholars have looked beyond power binaries to interrogate the complex network of gender, class, family, and culture to place ‘the mad’ as historical actors in a complex and often contradictory story. This article reflects on some major themes …
The Athenaeum: More than Just Another London Club, by Michael Wheeler
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900
Soldiers, Alcohol, and Insanity at Richmond Asylum, 1860s–1900s
This article examines the role of alcohol in the etiology of madness through a case study of soldiers and veterans at Richmond Asylum in Dublin. It argues that the diagnostic process was a complex practice informed by medical and military authorities and patient and family histories. Like any medical records, Richmond casebooks are mediated through the medical gaze, but they do contain significant glimpses into what role patients and families bel…
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