Crime, courtrooms, and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 / edited by David Lemmings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemmings, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal courts--Great Britain--History.

Criminal courts.

Trial and arbitral proceedings--Great Britain--History.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Crime--Great Britain--History.

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings from early scenes of noise and disorder, to a much more rigid and solemn atmosphere by the start of the nineteenth century. Through an investigation as to the extent to which legal proceedings may be understood as theatre and counter-theatre; the impact of lawyers' intervention in the courtroom; and the role and impact of print media in relation to trials, the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural dimensions of Britain's law courts.

Contents:

Introduction: criminal courts, lawyers and the public sphere / David Lemmings

Trials in print : narratives of rape trials in the proceedings of the old Bailey / Esther Snell

Useful and entertaining to the generality of readers: selecting the select trials, 1718-1764 / Andrea McKenzie

Representing the adversary criminal trial : lawyers in the old Bailey proceedings, 1770-1800 / Robert Shoemaker

Acts of public performance : barristers and actors in Georgian England / Simon Devereaux

Negotiating justice in the new public sphere : crime, the courts, and the press in early eighteenth-century Britain / David Lemmings

Contemplating the evil within : examining attitudes to criminality in Scotland, 1700-1840 / Anne-Marie Kilday

Fiction or faction : literary representations of the early nineteenth-century criminal courtroom / Allyson N. May

Publishing courtroom drama for the masses, 1820-1855 / Rosalind Crone.

Notes:

"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57479-9

1-317-15796-6

1-317-15795-8

1-283-70560-5

1-4094-1804-9

9781315574790

OCLC:

819506042