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

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Sheley, Erin [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9781474450126

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Criminality & the Common Law Imagination in the 18th & 19th Centuries

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PR448 .C756 2020

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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

Subject: 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.

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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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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