Title Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Erin Sheley

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource PDF file(s) Series Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities. Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2020) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Crime in literature. Law in literature. Crime -- England -- History -- 18th century Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- England -- 18th century Literature and society -- England -- 19th century LAW / Legal History Crime Crime in literature English literature Law in literature Literature and society England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474450126 1474450121

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