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Men on trial : Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800-45 /
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Series: | Gender in history.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Opening speeches : an introduction
- Law and lawyers : 'the prerogative of the wig'
- The stage : 'the court presented a very imposing spectacle'
- Bodies in court : 'Hogarth would have admired him forever'
- Speech, sympathy and eloquence : 'it is a voice full of manly melody'
- The cross-examination : 'he's putting me in such a doldrum'
- Storytelling : 'quoting the poet'
- On character : 'you see McDonnell the value of a good character'
- Closing arguments : a conclusion.