Allyson N. May

Gebundenes Buch

Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London

The Russell Murder

Beschreibung

This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.

Autor

Allyson N. May is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750-1850 (2003) and The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004: Class and Cruelty (2013) and co-editor, with David Lemmings, of Criminal Justice during the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Representation and Emotion (2019).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781032771700
• ISBN-10: 1032771704
• Artikelnr.: 70526284