Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781350142589
Description: "Employing an innovative cultural-historical approach, James Gregory provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in modern Britain, spanning over two centuries. Split into 3 main parts, the first explores mercy's religious and philosophical aspects; the second, at the royal acts of mercy from the Hanoverian accession to Victoria's death; and the third, case studies of large-scale mobilization of mercy discourses in Britain, Europe, and the US"--