Guilty but insane : mind and law in golden age detective fiction / Samantha Walton.

  • Walton, Samantha (Poet)
Date:
2015
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Physical description

xiv, 304 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Edition

First edition.

Contents

Introduction: Death by adaption: the case for reading detective fiction -- Theories of mind: an introduction -- Psychological detection -- Guilty but insane -- Born criminals -- "The concealed enemy of the self": deviance and dissociation -- Irrational detection -- Dénoument.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP.AI.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9780198723332
  • 0198723334
  • 9780198723325
  • 0198723326