- 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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