Cultural histories of law, media and emotion public justice / edited by Katie Barclay and Amy Milka.
| Other author | Barclay, Katie. |
| Other author | Milka, Amy. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | volumes cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies |
| Contents | Public justice : legal history and the cultural turn / Katie Barclay and Amy Milka -- Fire, fake news and the standing army : arson and moral panics during the Popish Plot, 1678-81 / Andrea McKenzie -- Moral panic and the policing of the mad in Georgian Britain / Mark Neuendorf -- The press, the public and Elizabeth Canning in mid-eighteenth-century London / Joanne McEwan -- Character and custody : the legal battle of Dr. Barnardo and Mrs McHugh / Michael Lobban -- The emotional rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660-1780 / Katie Barclay -- Conventional and unconventional emotions in the eighteenth-century English Court of Chancery : the story of 'unhappy' Mary Bangs / Emily Ireland -- Bentham's Hyaena : humour as formal critique in Jeremy Bentham's responses to William Blackstone's commentaries on the laws of England / Kathryn D. Temple -- 'An attraction of an intellectual kind' : Amelia Opie's passion for the law / Amy Milka -- Legality, liberty, and oppression in post-revolutionary England, 1689-1760 / Wilfrid Prest -- Garrow for the prosecution / Allyson N. May -- Patrick Madan - avatar of the English penal crisis / Simon Devereaux -- Sparing the noose : death sentences and the pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts, 1763-1868 / Robert Shoemaker. |
| Abstract | "Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of a long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. This volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the history of emotions as well as the legal history of Britain from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022004350 |
| ISBN | 9780367506162 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780367506193 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |