TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheley,Erin
TI  - Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries /Erin Sheley
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
SN  - 9781474450126
AV  - PR448 .C756 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Law in literature
KW  - Crime
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2020); 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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