Crime, Broadsides and Social Change, 1800-1850

ISBN-13: 9781137597885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 248 str.

Kate Bates

Recenzje

"This book is well worth reading and deserves a place on the small but growing shelf of studies of nineteenth-century street literature." (Steve Roud, Folk Music Journal, 2021)

Spis treści

List of Illustrations 

List of Figures and Maps 

Preface

Chapter 1

Introduction: The Broadside Enigma and its Historical Development  

Chapter 2

Broadsides as Sources: A Methodological Discussion and Overview 

of Key Findings 

Chapter 3

A ‘Barbarous’ Trade – Early Nineteenth Century Broadsides in Social

and Historical Context

Chapter 4

‘A Full and Particular Account’ – Representations of Morality 

and Justice in Broadside Discourse

Chapter 5

Collective Representations - A Durkheimian Interpretation of

Crime Broadsides 

Chapter 6

Ballads of Blood – The Form and Function of Crime Narratives  

Chapter 7 

Conclusion - The Social Significance of Crime Broadsides: 

Bonding Not Binding 

Index 

O autorze

Kate Bates is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has extensive experience of criminal justice, having served as both a police officer and a civilian caseworker investigating police complaints, and has also served as a panel member for Children’s Hearings Scotland.

Blurb

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and alternative interpretation as to their narratives of crime. This criminological interpretation is based upon the social theories of Emile Durkheim, who recognised the higher utility of crime and punishment as being one of social integration and the preservation of moral boundaries. The central aim of this book is to show that broadsides relating to crime and punishment served as a form of moral communication for the masses and that they are examples of how the working class once attempted to bolster a sense of stability and community, during the transitional years of the early nineteenth century, by effectively representing both a consolidation and celebration of their core values and beliefs.