Crime, courtrooms, and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 /

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Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings from early scenes of noise and disorder, to a much more rigid and solemn atmosphere by the start of the nineteenth century. Through an investigation as to the extent to wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lemmings, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2013.
Temas:
Criminal courts > Great Britain > History.
Trials > Great Britain > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain > History.
Crime > Great Britain > History.
Tribunaux criminels > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Procès > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Crime.
Criminal courts.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Trials.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: criminal courts, lawyers and the public sphere / David Lemmings
  • Trials in print : narratives of rape trials in the proceedings of the old Bailey / Esther Snell
  • Useful and entertaining to the generality of readers: selecting the select trials, 1718-1764 / Andrea McKenzie
  • Representing the adversary criminal trial : lawyers in the old Bailey proceedings, 1770-1800 / Robert Shoemaker
  • Acts of public performance : barristers and actors in Georgian England / Simon Devereaux
  • Negotiating justice in the new public sphere : crime, the courts, and the press in early eighteenth-century Britain / David Lemmings
  • Contemplating the evil within : examining attitudes to criminality in Scotland, 1700-1840 / Anne-Marie Kilday
  • Fiction or faction : literary representations of the early nineteenth-century criminal courtroom / Allyson N. May
  • Publishing courtroom drama for the masses, 1820-1855 / Rosalind Crone.

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