Cultural histories of law, media and emotion : public justice /: public justice. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katie Barclay, Amy Milka.
• Editors: Barclay, Katie; Milka, Amy
• Contents: 1. Public Justice: Legal History and the Cultural Turn Katie Barclay and Amy Milka Part 1: Sensible Medias 2. Fire, Fake News and the Standing Army: Arson and Moral Panics during the Popish Plot, 1678–81 Andrea McKenzie 3. Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain Mark Neuendorf 4. The Press, the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Joanne McEwan 5. Character and Custody: The Legal Battle of Dr. Barnardo and Mrs McHugh Michael Lobban Part 2: Emotional Rhetorics and the Law 6. The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660–1780 Katie Barclay 7. Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery: The Story of ‘Unhappy’ Mary Bangs Emily Ireland 8. Bentham’s Hyaena: Humour as Formal Critique in Jeremy Bentham’s Responses to William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England Kathryn D. Temple 9. ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind’: Amelia Opie’s Passion for the Law Amy Milka Part 3: Legal Selves 10. Legality, Liberty, and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689–1760 Wilfrid Prest 11. Garrow for the Prosecution Allyson N. May 12. Patrick Madan: Avatar of the English Penal Crisis Simon Devereaux 13. Sparing the Noose: Death Sentences and the Pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts, 1763–1868 Robert Shoemaker
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 347.4209033; Law -- Humor; Law -- Psychological aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Law -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000619843; 9781000619539; 9781003050520
• Related ISBNs: 9780367506162
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