Unconscious crime : mental absence and criminal responsibility in Victorian London / Joel Peter Eigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insanity (Law)--Great Britain--Jurisprudence--History--19th century.

Insanity (Law).

Great Britain.

Jurisprudence.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]

Summary:

A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; a man on trial for assault undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional "alter." These people are not characters from a mystery novel but rather mid-nineteenth-century defendants on trial in London's Old Bailey. In"

Contents:

Double consciousness in the nineteenth century

"Do you remember Cardiff?"

"I mean she was quite absent"

The princess and the cherry juice

An unconscious poisoning

Crimes of an automaton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-218) and index.

ISBN:

0801874289

OCLC:

51936913