Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries / / Erin Sheley.
A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and common lawPerforms transformative interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year periodUncovers the connections between the individual and collective memorie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tolbooth Door
- Part I Adultery as Actus Reus
- 1 Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty
- 2 The Gothic Law of Marriage
- Part II Child Criminality as Mens Rea
- 3 The “Faerie Court” of Child Punishment
- Part III The Rape Victim as Evidence
- 4 The Rape Novel and Reputation Evidence
- 5 Literary Rape Trials and the Trauma of National Identity
- Coda: Leaving Midlothian
- Bibliography
- Index