Trials of passion : crimes in the name of love and madness
Appignanesi, Lisa2016
Book
When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human.
Main title:
Trials of passion : crimes in the name of love and madness / Lisa Appignanesi.
Author:
Appignanesi, Lisa, author
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2016.
Collation:
434 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781844088751 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1'523
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
178113