Title Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Erin Sheley.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

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Series	Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
	Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
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Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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
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Subject	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Crime in literature.
	Crime in literature.
	Law in literature.
	Law in literature.
	Crime -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Crime.
	England.
	History.
	Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society -- England -- 18th century.
	Literature and society.
	Literature and society -- England -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Added Title	Criminality & the Common Law Imagination in the 18th & 19th Centuries
Other Form:	Print version: 9781474450102
ISBN	9781474450126 (ebook)
	1474450121
	9781474450102 (hardback)
	1474450105

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