Crime, courtrooms, and the public sphere in Britain, 1700-1850
By: edited by David Lemmings
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781409418030; 9781409418047
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Criminal courts; History; Trial and arbitral proceedings; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: criminal courts, lawyers and the public sphere / David Lemmings; title: Trials in print : narratives of rape trials in the proceedings of the old Bailey / Esther Snell; title: Useful and entertaining to the generality of readers: selecting the select trials, 1718-1764 / Andrea McKenzie; title: Representing the adversary criminal trial : lawyers in the old Bailey proceedings, 1770-1800 / Robert Shoemaker; title: Acts of public performance : barristers and actors in Georgian England / Simon Devereaux; title: Negotiating justice in the new public sphere : crime, the courts, and the press in early eighteenth-century Britain / David Lemmings; title: Contemplating the evil within : examining attitudes to criminality in Scotland, 1700-1840 / Anne-Marie Kilday; title: Fiction or faction : literary representations of the early nineteenth-century criminal courtroom / Allyson N. May; title: Publishing courtroom drama for the masses, 1820-1855 / Rosalind Crone.