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Criminality and the common law imagination in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 1...
Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.
Details
- Creator
- Erin Sheley
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 9781474450126, 1474450121, 1474450105
- OCLC
- on1306541072
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Tolbooth Door -- Part I Adultery as Actus Reus -- 1 Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty -- 2 The Gothic Law of Marriage -- Part II Child Criminality as Mens Rea -- 3 The “Faerie Court” of Child Punishment -- Part III The Rape Victim as Evidence -- 4 The Rape Novel and Reputation Evidence -- 5 Literary Rape Trials and the Trauma of National Identity -- Coda: Leaving Midlothian -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Crime in literature.
- Law in literature.
- Crime -- England -- History -- 18th century.
- Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- 18th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- 19th century.