[PDF.42ta] Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England (Oxford Studies in Social History)

Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England (Oxford Studies in Social History)

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 | #4466068 in Books |  Michael MacDonald |  1991-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.81 x1.10 x5.56l,1.41 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

 | Sleepless Souls Suicide in Early Modern England Oxford Studies in Social History

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| TERRIFYING AND BRILLIANT SCHOLARLY RESEARCH|By LAURA|A work of "social and cultural history", which, as one of the the authors indicates in the Preface, "focuses on the rise and fall of hostility to suicide and savage punishment of it in the centuries between 1500 and 1800." As many authors, following E. Durkheim's approach, have tended to study suicide through impossibly recon| ||"One of the best things about Sleepless Souls is the insistence of Michael MacDonald and Terrencee Murphy that suicide is a social question."--Journal of British Studies||"A marvelous accession to the history of suicide, and a compelling con

Suicide was regarded as a deplorable act, subject to savage punishments, in Tudor and Stuart England. In Georgian England it was de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary sources, Sleepless Souls traces the causes of this dramatic shift in attitude. Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy relate changes in opinion and practice to the complex framework of life in early modern England--including political ev...

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