Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Erin Sheley.
2022
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Title
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Erin Sheley.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2020
Description
1 online resource (264 p.)
Series
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Formatted Contents Note
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
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
Summary
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 memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itselfDraws on three case studies - adultery, child criminality and rape testimony - to demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on legal development in the 18th and 19th centuriesErin Sheley shows how the symbolic relationship between adultery and threatened English sovereignty created a quasi-criminal legal discourse surrounding the private wrong of adultery; how the literary 'construction' of childhood by 19th-century fairy tale writers affected the development of the juvenile justice system; and how evolving rules about rape victim 'character evidence' functioned as epistemological components of volatile national identity. Readings include:Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and OrmondThomas Hardy's Tess of the d'UrbervillesCharles Kingsley's The Water-BabiesGeorge MacDonald's The Lost PrincessAlfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the KingCharlotte Brontë's Jane EyreHenry Fielding's The Modern Husband Sir Walter Scott's Heart of MidlothianSamuel Richardson's Clarissa
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In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Language
English
ISBN
9781474450126
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