'No less than a palace' : Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents

Title: 'No less than a palace' : Kew Asylum, its planned surrounds, and its present-day residents
Creator: Reeves, Keir; Nichols, David
Date: 2009
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99032
Identifier: vital:10317
Identifier: https://library.federation.edu.au/record=b1464287
Identifier: ISBN:9780203885031
Abstract: This chapter's objective is to move beyond standard understandings of places of pain and shame in the existing body of literature. It introduces a multidisciplinary heritage approach, focusing on the Kew Lunatic Asylum in Melbourne. This vast, impressive and prominent building highlights the level of government and public focus on benevolence, and benevolent incarceration, prevalent in Victorian era colonial society. When it opened, the Kew Asylum was among the largest such complexes in the world, its creators aspiring to bring forth a model institution that was not only an exemplar of colonial Victorian society but also of the British Empire.
Publisher: Routledge
Relation: Places of pain and shame : Dealing with "Difficult Heritage" p. 247-262
Rights: Copyright (C) Logan, William; Reeves, Keir
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Kew lunatic asylum; Melbourne; Government institution; Benevolence; Colonial Victorian society
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