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1 online resource (237 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Historicising Emotions: Performance, Sensibility, and the Rule of Law; Part I Feminine Performances and the Criminal Trial: Women's Emotional Work in the Public Sphere; 2 'It Will Be Expected by You All, to Hear Something from Me': Emotion, Performance, and Child Murder in Britain in the Eighteenth Century; 3 The Prosecutorial Passions: An Emotional History of Petty Treason and Parricide in England, 1674-1790; 4 Shame and Malice in the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Court and Community |
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Part II Emotional Communities and Sensibilities: Truth, Theatre, and Blasphemy in Court5 Sympathetic Speech: Telling Truths in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court; 6 Swearing and Feeling: The Secularisation of Truth-Seeking in the Victorian English Court; 7 Irish Sensibilities and the English Bar: The Advocacy of Charles Phillips; Part III Emotional Regimes and the Legal Process: Stories of Terror, Sensibility, and Patriotism in the Representation of Criminal Trials; 8 Theatre of Blood: On the Criminal Trial as Tale of Terror; 9 Doctor Dodd and the Law in the Age of the Sentimental Revolution |
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10 Thomas Erskine and the Performance of Moral Sentiments: The Emotional Reportage of Trials for 'Criminal Conversation' and Treason in the 1790sList of Contributors; Index |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
May, Allyson N
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| ISBN |
9780429678479 |
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0429678479 |
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9780429678462 |
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0429678460 |
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