The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 5

The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 5

Author: Mark Robson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 100056004X

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First published in 2013. This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed. Part II, Volume 5 contains the period of 1750–1799: Sermons, Discourses, Essays and Treatises.


The Ethics of Suicide

The Ethics of Suicide

Author: Margaret Pabst Battin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-09-11

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0199385815

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Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.


Aristocratic Vice

Aristocratic Vice

Author: Donna T. Andrew

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-06-18

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0300185529

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DIV Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough to punish those perpetrators who were members of the elite. In this exciting new book, Andrew explores each vice’s treatment by the press at the time and shows how a century of public attacks on aristocratic vices promoted a sense of “class superiority” among the soon-to-emerge British middle class. “Donna Andrew continues to illuminate the mental landscapes of eighteenth-century Britain. . . . No historian of the period has made greater or more effective use of the newspaper press as a source for cultural history than she. This book is evidently the product of a great deal of work and is likely to stimulate further work.”—Joanna Innes, University of Oxford /div


The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 8

The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 8

Author: Mark Robson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1000561739

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First published in 2013. This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed. Part II, Volume 8 contains 1800–1850: Medical Writers (continued), Statistical Inquiries, Social Criticism, Poetic and Popular Representations and Cases.


Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

Author: Frank McLynn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1136093168

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McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?


Art of Suicide

Art of Suicide

Author: Ron Brown

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2004-01-02

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1861896867

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The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient Greece, Ron Brown discusses the contrast between the extraordinary absence of such events in early Christianity and the proliferation of images of biblical suicides in the late medieval era. He emphasizes how differing attitudes to suicide in the early modern world slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime". Brown tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling", ready to hurl himself into the abyss over a woman or an unfinishable poem. After the First World War, the meaning of death and attitudes towards suicide changed radically, and in time this led to its decriminalization. The 20th century in fact witnessed a growing ambivalence towards suicidal acts, which today are widely regarded either as expressions of a death-wish or as cries for help. Brown concludes with Warhol's picture of Marilyn Monroe and the videos taken by the notorious Dr Kevorkian.


Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture

Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture

Author: Heather Kerr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1137455411

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This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.