Theaters of Pardoning / / Bernadette Meyler.
From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadet...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 1 b&w halftone |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Theaters of Pardoning
- ONE. Dramatic Judgments: Measure for Measure, Revenge, and the Institution of the Law
- TWO. Emplotting Politics: James I and the “Powder Treason”
- THREE. Non-Sovereign Forgiveness: Mercy among Equals in The Laws of Candy
- FOUR. From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger’s The Bondman
- FIVE. Between Royal Pardons and Acts of Oblivion: The Transitional Justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton
- SIX. Pardoning Revolution: The 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes’s Recentering of Sovereignty
- Postlude: Pardoning and Liberal Constitutionalism
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Bibliography
- Index