Sites of discourse, public and private spheres, legal culture : : papers from a conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, December 2001 / / edited by Uwe Boker and Julie A. Hibbard.

The present collection of essays grew out of a conference, held in Dresden in December 2001, exploring the relationship between the public sphere and legal culture. The conference was held in connection with the ongoing research undertaken by the Sonderforschungsbereich 537 'Institutionalisatio...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft..
Physical Description:1 online resource (259 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Gert MELVILLE: Institutions and the Public Sphere: Some Preliminary Remarks
  • Peter Uwe HOHENDAHL: The Theory of the Public Sphere Revisited
  • Jürgen SCHLAEGER: A Reckoning without the Host: Public and Private Spheres in the Eighteenth Century
  • Uwe BÖKER: Institutionalised Rules of Discourse and the Court Room as a Site of the Public Sphere
  • Juliet H. WIGHTMAN: 'All the world is but a bear-baiting' -Violence and Popular Culture in the Renaissance
  • Alastair MANN: Parliaments, Princes, and Presses: Voices of Tradition and Protest in Early Modern Scotland
  • Annette PANKRATZ: Over the King's Bodies: The Emerging Public Sphere in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Heinz-Joachim MÜLLENBROCK: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Ian A. BELL: Literature, Crime, and Society in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Beth SWAN: Defoe and the Criminal Lawyer: Eighteenth Century Ideologies of Justice
  • Greta OLSON: Keyholes in Eighteenth-Century Novels as Liminal Spaces between the Public and Private Spheres
  • Christoph HOUSWITSCHKA: Family, Crime, and the Public Sphere: 'Incest' in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: Alsatian Eccentricities: An Initial Appraisal of a Nineteenth-Century Collection of Eighteenth-Century News on Crime
  • Eckhart HELLMUTH: Criticising the Constitution: or, How to Talk about the Liberty of the Press in the 1790s
  • Uwe BÖKER: The Prison and the Penitentiary as Sites of Public Counter-Discourse
  • York-Gothart MIX: 'Ubi libertas, ibi patria': The Interculturality of German-American Popular Almanacs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.