This article explores the way in which leading Yorkshire newspapers, the Leeds Intelligencer and the Leeds Mercury, portrayed mental illness during the late Georgian era. In this period, newspapers were a central forum of public debate, yet a comprehensive analysis of the way they represented mental illness is lacking from the scholarship. Through the textual analysis of the newspaper miscellanies, this paper locates the subject of insanity within the middle-class Northern readership during the years of 1800 to 1840. The press content provides a fascinating glimpse of the opinions of the newly emerging psychiatric practitioners and the peculiarly middle-class fears and concerns about mental illness and its supposed increase.

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“奇迹与恐怖的故事”：格鲁吉亚时代晚期利兹报纸新闻杂记中的精神错乱主题

这篇文章探讨了约克郡的主要报纸 Leeds Intelligencer 和 Leeds Mercury 在格鲁吉亚时代晚期描绘精神疾病的方式。在这一时期，报纸是公共辩论的中心论坛，但奖学金缺乏对它们代表精神疾病的方式的全面分析。通过对报纸杂文的文本分析，本文将 1800 年至 1840 年期间北方中产阶级读者群中精神错乱的主题定位。中产阶级对精神疾病及其预期增加的恐惧和担忧。