Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Representation and Emotion

ISBN-13: 9780367583927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

David Lemmings; Allyson N. May

Opis

This book draws upon three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of crime and criminal justice in Britain and Ireland between 1660 and 1850: the conceptual lens of the "public sphere", "performativity" and speech act theory, and the history of the emotions. It opens new perspectives on the theatre of justice.

Spis treści

1. Historicizing Emotions: Performance, Sensibility, and the Rule of Law  Part I: Feminine Performances and the Criminal Trial: Women’s Emotional Work in the Public Sphere  2. "It Will Be Expected by You All, To Hear Something from Me": Emotion, Performance, and Child Murder in Britain in the Eighteenth Century  3. The Prosecutorial Passions: An Emotional History of Petty Treason and Parricide in England, 1674-1790  4. Shame and Malice in the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Court and Community  Part II: Emotional Communities and Sensibilities: Truth, Theatre and Blasphemy in Court  5. Sympathetic Speech: Telling Truths in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court  6. Swearing and Feeling: The Secularization of Truth-Seeking in the Victorian English Court  7. Irish Sensibilities and the English Bar: The Advocacy of Charles Phillips  Part III: Emotional Regimes and the Legal Process: Stories of Terror, Sensibility and Patriotism in the Representation of Criminal Trials   8. Theatre of Blood: On the Criminal Trial as Tale of Terror  9. Doctor Dodd and the Law in the Age of the Sentimental Revolution  10. Thomas Erskine and the Performance of Moral Sentiments: The Emotional Reportage of Trials for "Criminal Conversation" and Treason in the 1790s

O autorze

David Lemmings is Professor of History at the University of Adelaide and Leader of the Change Program in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Allyson N. May is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario.