Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion (eBook, PDF)

Public Justice
Redaktion: Barclay, Katie; Milka, Amy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000619539
• Artikelnr.: 64151491

Autorenporträt

Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, law, gender and family life. Amy Milka is a researcher in eighteenth-century history, literature and culture at the University of Adelaide.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public Justice: Legal History and the Cultural Turn
Part 1: Sensible Medias
2. Fire
Fake News and the Standing Army: Arson and Moral Panics during the Popish Plot
1678-81
3. Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain
4. The Press
the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
5. Character and Custody: The Legal Battle of Dr. Barnardo and Mrs McHugh
Part 2: Emotional Rhetorics and the Law
6. The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment
1660-1780
7. Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery: The Story of 'Unhappy' Mary Bangs
8. Bentham's Hyaena: Humour as Formal Critique in Jeremy Bentham's Responses to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
9. 'An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind': Amelia Opie's Passion for the Law
Part 3: Legal Selves
10. Legality
Liberty
and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England
1689-1760
11. Garrow for the Prosecution
12. Patrick Madan: Avatar of the English Penal Crisis
13. Sparing the Noose: Death Sentences and the Pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts
1763-1868