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When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xvii*I. Verdicts, pg. 1*II. Willing to Be, pg. 23*III. Cases and Classes: Sensational Suicides and Their Interpreters, pg. 38*IV. Bad and Far Better Things, pg. 61*V. Other Times, Other Cultures, Other Selves, pg. 82*VI. Monsters of Self-Destruction, pg. 101*VII. Suicidal Women: Fact or Fiction?, pg. 125*VIII. Century's End: "The Coming Universal Wish Not to Live", pg. 151*Notes, pg. 169*Index, pg. 185

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691600482, 978-0691600482
      ISBN10: 0691600481
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      Book Synopsis

      When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xvii*I. Verdicts, pg. 1*II. Willing to Be, pg. 23*III. Cases and Classes: Sensational Suicides and Their Interpreters, pg. 38*IV. Bad and Far Better Things, pg. 61*V. Other Times, Other Cultures, Other Selves, pg. 82*VI. Monsters of Self-Destruction, pg. 101*VII. Suicidal Women: Fact or Fiction?, pg. 125*VIII. Century's End: "The Coming Universal Wish Not to Live", pg. 151*Notes, pg. 169*Index, pg. 185

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