| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cartes de visite and the first mass media photographic images of the English judiciary : continuity and change / Leslie J. Moran -- Sir Redmond Barry and the trial of Ned Kelly : representing the judge and judgment in nineteenth-century Australia / Alice Richardson -- The emotional reactions of judges in cases of maternal child murder in England, 1840-1900 / Alison Pedley -- "What will most tend towards morality" : Sir Cresswell Cresswell and the divorce court, 1858-1863 / Gail Savage -- "Infamous falsehoods" : judges, perjury, and affiliation trials in England, 1855-1930 / Ginger Frost -- Authoritative judgments in a provincial town : responses to everyday offending in Plymouth, 1860-1900 / Kim Stevenson and Iain Channing -- Judging the judges : the image of the judge in the popular illustrated press / Craig Newbery-Jones -- The matter of judgment : comparing gendered perspectives on Victorian legal culture in popular literature / Judith Rowbotham -- The operation and representation of art judgment / James Gregory -- Judging by the hand : handwriting and character in Victorian literary culture / Karin Koehler -- "They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may" : judging Percy Shelley's Queen Mab (1813) in the nineteenth century / Cian Duffy |
| Summary |
"This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Culture and law -- History -- 19th century
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Judgment -- Social aspects
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Culture and law
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056823
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregory, James (Historian), editor.
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Grey, Daniel J.R., editor
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Bautz, Annika, editor.
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| LC no. |
2020692478 |
| ISBN |
9781351400695 |
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135140069X |
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9780203732021 |
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0203732022 |
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9781351400688 |
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1351400681 |
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9781351400701 |
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1351400703 |
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