Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories /

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When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gates, Barbara T., 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suicide in literature.
Suicide.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
Suicide dans la litterature.
Suicide > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Suicide > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Verdicts
  • II. Willing to Be
  • III. Cases and Classes: Sensational Suicides and Their Interpreters
  • IV. Bad and Far Better Things
  • V. Other Times, Other Cultures, Other Selves
  • VI. Monsters of Self-Destruction
  • VII. Suicidal Women: Fact or Fiction?
  • VIII. Century's End: "The Coming Universal Wish Not to Live"
  • Notes
  • Index.

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