Crime, courtrooms, and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850 - Lemmings, David (Farnham, Surrey, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Criminal courts -- Great Britain -- History; Trial and arbitral proceedings -- Great Britain -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History; Crime -- Great Britain -- History; Electronic books