'This Rash Act'

Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City

Autor: Victor Bailey

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Stanford University Press

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What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1...

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Autor

Victor Bailey

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2000

strony

372

EAN

9780804731249

ISBN

0804731241

Enbook ID

04444384

Wydawca

Stanford University Press

Waga

506

Wymiary

153 x 227 x 20

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What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the experiences that drove people to suicide; to analyze how suicide was understood by victims, by their families and friends, and by legal and medical authorities; to study how the presumed causes of suicide and the meanings of suicide changed over time and in response to changed social circumstances; and to see what suicide narratives elicited by coroners inquests can tell us about Victorian life, beliefs, and values in general. The book is based on an unprecedentedly complete and comprehensive collection of inquest files covering the entire Victorian era in Hull (most coroners files have not survived or exist only in fragmentary form). Hitherto, suicide in the Victorian period has been examined only on a national basis; where local evidence has been used, it has come chiefly from London. Through the testimony of relatives, neighbors, friends, and even the deceased (by means of suicide notes), the author has been able to get closer to the experience of suicide and its social construction than has been possible in any previous study.

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