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Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries /
Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- Copyright
- 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