Mental Illness and Treatment during the Romantic Era and Its Presence in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Beaufort’s Affliction

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Victor’s Trip to the Asylum

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William Battie and A Treatise on Madness

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Philippe Pinel and His “Medico-Philosophical Treatise on Mental Alienation or Mania”

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The State Madhouse

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James Hadfield, the Criminal Lunatics
Act, and the Legal Definition of Lunacy

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The top image, Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (Wikipedia), is one of the most famous art pieces to come out of the Romantic Era, and at one point, it served as a book cover for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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