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The Resource Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness, Lisa Appignanesi

Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness, Lisa Appignanesi

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Summary
  • "Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" --
  • "A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human. Outside fiction, individual emotions and the inner life had rarely been publicly discussed: now, in an increasingly popular press and its courtroom reports, people avidly consumed accounts of transgressive sexuality, savage jealousy and forbidden desires. These stood revealed as aspects not only of those labelled mad, but potentially, of everyone. With great storytelling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the law and the clinic as they stumble towards a (sometimes reviled) collaboration. Sexual etiquette and class roles, attitudes to love, madness and gender, notions of respectability and honor, insanity and lunacy, all are at play in that vital forum in which public opinion is shaped--the theater of the courtroom" --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
434 pages
Isbn
9781605988146
Instance
Label
Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness
Title
Trials of passion
Title remainder
crimes committed in the name of love and madness
Statement of responsibility
Lisa Appignanesi
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" --
  • "A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human. Outside fiction, individual emotions and the inner life had rarely been publicly discussed: now, in an increasingly popular press and its courtroom reports, people avidly consumed accounts of transgressive sexuality, savage jealousy and forbidden desires. These stood revealed as aspects not only of those labelled mad, but potentially, of everyone. With great storytelling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the law and the clinic as they stumble towards a (sometimes reviled) collaboration. Sexual etiquette and class roles, attitudes to love, madness and gender, notions of respectability and honor, insanity and lunacy, all are at play in that vital forum in which public opinion is shaped--the theater of the courtroom" --
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Appignanesi, Lisa
Dewey number
364.15230922
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
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LC call number
D
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Criminal psychology
  • Criminal psychology
  • Crimes of passion
  • Trials (Crimes of passion)
  • Trials (Murder)
  • Trials (Attempted murder)
  • Edmunds, Christiana
  • Bière, Marie
  • Thaw, Harry Kendall
Label
Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness, Lisa Appignanesi
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1610592
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
434 pages
Isbn
9781605988146
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1610592
  • (OCoLC)892878909
Label
Trials of passion : crimes committed in the name of love and madness, Lisa Appignanesi
Publication
Distribution
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1610592
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
434 pages
Isbn
9781605988146
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1610592
  • (OCoLC)892878909

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