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Unconscious Crime : Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801881480
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unconscious CrimeDDC classification:
  • 345.42/04
LOC classification:
  • KD7897 .E359 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- One - Double Conciousness in the Nineteenth Century -- Two - "Do You Remember Cardiff? -- Three - "I Mean She Was Quite Absent -- Four - The Princess and the Cherry Juice -- Five - An Unconcious Poisoning -- Six - Crimes of an Automaton -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- One - Double Conciousness in the Nineteenth Century -- Two - "Do You Remember Cardiff? -- Three - "I Mean She Was Quite Absent -- Four - The Princess and the Cherry Juice -- Five - An Unconcious Poisoning -- Six - Crimes of an Automaton -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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