Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries, 9781474450119
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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.

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

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    264 pages

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    9 June 2022

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Summary

By accessing penal history through the mediator of individual memory authors can be seen to depict the cumulative dialogue between the English common law and its cultural representations across historical time. Offering legal readings of works by authors including Thomas Hardy, Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson, George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Henry Fielding and Sir Walter Scott; this book explores this litera…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474450119
ISBN-10:1474450113
Author:Erin Sheley
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:Edinburgh University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:9 June 2022
Weight:367g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
About The Author

Erin Sheley

Erin Sheley is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Her legal research considers how the law should account for subjectivity in measuring and punishing criminal and tort harm. Her work has appeared in such journals as the North Carolina Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Wake Forest Law Review, and the Indiana Law Review. Her literary scholarship has appeared in the Byron Journal, the Southern Literary Journal, Law and Literature, and Law, Culture and the Humanities. She holds an A.B. and J.D. from Harvard University and a PhD in English from the George Washington University.

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