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--History--19th century.

Insanity (Law).

Mental health laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combining the colorful intrigue of courtroom drama and the keen insights of social history, Unconscious Crime depicts Victorian England's legal and medical cultures confronting a new understanding of human behavior, and provocatively suggests these trials represent the earliest incarnation of double consciousness and multiple personality disorder.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8018-8148-X

OCLC:

70737536