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Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Gates, Barbara

by Gates, Barbara | HC | Acceptable
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Condition
Acceptable
A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. The binding may be slightly damaged but integrity is still intact. Possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ...
Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780691094373
Subject Area
Psychology
Publication Name
Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Length
10.8 in
Subject
Psychopathology / General, Suicide
Publication Year
1988
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Author
Barbara Gates
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691094373
ISBN-13
9780691094373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1570477

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
Publication Year
1988
Subject
Psychopathology / General, Suicide
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Author
Barbara Gates
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
88-015144
Dewey Edition
19
Series Volume Number
920
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.2
Synopsis
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 suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake through the heart to keep the lost soul from wandering. Probing a remarkable variety of sources and individual cases, Barbara Gates shows how attitudes toward suicide changed between Castlereagh's death and the end of the century. By 1900 the Victorians' moral censure of suicide and the accompanying denial that it was a widespread problem had been replaced by a more compassionate response--and also by an unfounded belief in a "suicide epidemic," which Thomas Hardy described as a "coming universal wish not to live.". Exposing a rich area of interaction between history and literature, and utilizing the methodology of the new historicism, Gates discusses topics ranging from the plot for Wuthering Heights to Victorian shilling shockers. Among other findings she includes evidence that Victorian middle-class men, particularly, tended to make suicide the province of other selves--of men belonging to other times or places, of "monsters," or of women. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
LC Classification Number
HV6548.G7G38 1988

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