This rash act : suicide across the life cycle in the Victorian city
What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull in the years 1837 to 1900 take their lives? This book attempts to answer this question and also to study how suicide was understood by victims, families, and friends; how the causes of suicide changed over time; and what coroners' inquests can tell us about Victorian life, beliefs, and values in general.
Print Book, English, 1998
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1998
History
xvi, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
9780804731232, 9780804731249, 0804731233, 0804731241
1169897586
Introduction; Part I. Suicide and the Social Historian: 1. Durkeim and beyond; Part II. Interpreting the Coroners' Inquest: 2. 'Crowner's quest law'; 3. Suicide verdicts; Part III. The Urban Life Cycle: 4. The urban life cycle in Victorian England; 5. Kingston upon Hull: economy, society, ecology; Part IV. Statistics: 6. The incidence of suicide; Part V. Suicide Across the Life Cycle: 7. Early-life transitions; 8. The prime of life; 9. Early old age; 10. Late old age; Epilogue: Durkheim redivvius; Notes; Bibliography; Index.