Criminality and the English Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities) - Hardcover

Erin Sheley

 
9781474450102: Criminality and the English Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1474450105 ISBN 13: 9781474450102
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Erin Sheley shows how the symbolic relationship between adultery and threatened English sovereignty created a quasi-criminal legal discourse surrounding the private wrong of adultery; how the literary 'construction' of childhood by 19th-century fairy tale writers affected the development of the juvenile justice system; and how evolving rules about rape victim 'character evidence' functioned as epistemological components of volatile national identity.

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About the Author

Erin Sheley is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. Erin's research considers how the law should account for subjective narratives in evaluating criminal and tort harm. She has contributed articles to various journals including the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Law, Culture, and the Humanities and Law and Literature.

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A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and the cumulative 'truth' produced by the common law Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers the connections between the individual and collective memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itself. It draws on 3 case studies - adultery, child criminality and rape testimony - that demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on legal development in the 18th and 19th centuries. Erin Sheley shows how the symbolic relationship between adultery and threatened English sovereignty created a quasi-criminal legal discourse surrounding the private wrong of adultery; how the literary 'construction' of childhood by 19th-century fairy-tale writers affected the development of the juvenile justice system; and how evolving rules about rape victim 'character evidence' functioned as epistemological components of volatile national identity. Transformative readings of widely read works include:  Charles Brockden Brown's 'Wieland and Ormond'  Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'  Charles Kingsley's 'The Water-Babies'  George MacDonald's 'The Lost Princess'  Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'  Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'  Henry Fielding's 'The Modern Husband'  Sir Walter Scott's 'Heart of Midlothian'  Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' Erin Sheley is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law

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A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and the cumulative truth produced by the common lawThrough interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers the connections between the individual and collective memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itself. It draws on 3 case studies adultery, child criminality and rape testimony that demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on legal development in the 18th and 19th centuries.Erin Sheley shows how the symbolic relationship between adultery and threatened English sovereignty created a quasi-criminal legal discourse surrounding the private wrong of adultery; how the literary construction of childhood by 19th-century fairy-tale writers affected the development of the juvenile justice system; and how evolving rules about rape victim character evidence functioned as epistemological components of volatile national identity.Transformative readings of widely read works include:? Charles Brockden Brown s 'Wieland and Ormond'? Thomas Hardy s 'Tess of the d Urbervilles'? Charles Kingsley s 'The Water-Babies'? George MacDonald s 'The Lost Princess'? Alfred, Lord Tennyson s 'Idylls of the King'? Charlotte Brontë s 'Jane Eyre'? Henry Fielding s 'The Modern Husband'? Sir Walter Scott s 'Heart of Midlothian'? Samuel Richardson s 'Clarissa'Erin Sheley is Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474450105
ISBN 13 
9781474450102
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264

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