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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aSheley, Erin,
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245 1 0 _aCriminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries /Erin Sheley.
246 3 _aCriminality & the Common Law Imagination in the 18th & 19th Centuries
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c(c)2020.
300 _a1 online resource
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490 1 _aEdinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2020).
520 0 _aThrough 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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505 0 0 _aIntro --
_tCriminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
_tCopyright --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: The Tolbooth Door --
_tPart I Adultery as Actus Reus --
_t1 Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty --
_t2 The Gothic Law of Marriage --
_tPart II Child Criminality as Mens Rea --
_t3 The "Faerie Court" of Child Punishment --
_tPart III The Rape Victim as Evidence --
_t4 The Rape Novel and Reputation Evidence --
_t5 Literary Rape Trials and the Trauma of National Identity --
_tCoda: Leaving Midlothian --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
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650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aCrime in literature.
650 0 _aLaw in literature.
650 0 _aCrime
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aCrime
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zEngland
_y18th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zEngland
_y19th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell