… to witness the antics of the lunatics. But the most telling form of Bethlem sociability was in its popular image as ‘
Bedlam’, a crazed version of actual society where all activities that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Mots-clés Insanity Confinement Punishment Entertainement
Bedlam Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘A Curious Dance Round a … is that of the fourth collected edition of 1709.). As Roy Porter observes, though, ‘Bethlem the institution was small; ‘
Bedlam ‘ the image loomed large in the public imagination’ ( p. 122). Bethlem was not only a sociable place to visit, …