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Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England
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Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England Hardcover - 1991

by Michael MacDonald; Terence R. Murphy (With)


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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 events, religious changes, philosophical fashions, and differing class interests. Their analysis uncovers the forces that were reshaping the mental outlook of different English classes and social groups, and consequently provides an invaluable social and cultural history of English society over three centuries.

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Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth century, and why it was subsequently gradually decriminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. It is a readable, detailed, and scholarly examination of the changing meaning of self-destruction, which provides an illuminating perspective of the sweep of cultural and social change in England over three centuries.

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  • Title Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England
  • Author Michael MacDonald; Terence R. Murphy (With)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991-01-17
  • ISBN 9780198229193 / 0198229194
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.62 x 1.1 in (22.40 x 14.27 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects England - Social conditions, Suicide - England - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90033323
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.280
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