Crime, courtrooms, and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lemmings, David.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Table of 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.