Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.
Contents:
Narrative intersections in popular trials -- Framing madness in the sanity trial of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- The mad doctors meet McNaughton : the battle for narrative supremacy in the trial of Mary Harris -- "True womanhood" and perfect madness : the sanity trial of Mary Todd Lincoln -- Womanhood as asset and liability : Lizzie Andrew Borden -- Bodies at the crossroads : the rise and fall of Madame Restell -- "You know it when you see it" : the rhetorical embodiment of race and gender in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander.
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