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With their reputations or lives at stake, ordinary men and women in the Eighteenth Century presented their complex emotions and passions as grounds for acquittal or mitigation of punishment. To account for their criminal behaviour and to excuse it, they claimed a space between the coherent self and the insane self: the 'displaced' self. This language had complicated implications within the context of sensibility and the concern with the self that was so distinguishing a characteristic of the Eighteenth Century. English legal culture struggled not only to contain and to direct the...

The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the product not of abstract principles but imperial contact. As the Empire expanded, encompassing greater religious, ethnic and racial diversity, the law paradoxically contained and maintained these very differences.
This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses: the Jewish Naturalization Act and the Elizabeth Canning case (175354); the Somerset Case (177172); the Gordon Riots (1780); the...