Download or read book Select Trials for Murder Robbery Burglary Rapes Sodomy Coining Forgery Pyracy written by and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select Trials for Murder Robbery Burglary Rapes Sodomy Coining Forgery Pyracy and Other Offences and Misdemeanours at the Sessions house in the Old Bailey written by and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Select Trials written by and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs Leigh Sotheby John Wilkinson 1840 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Turned to Account written by Lincoln B. Faller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character.
Download or read book Crime Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700 1850 written by David Lemmings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice. Recent historical scholarship has shown that in England lawyers only began to appear in ordinary criminal trials during the eighteenth century, however, and earlier trials often took place in an atmosphere of noise and disorder, where the behaviour of the crowd - significant body language, meaningful looks, and audible comment - could influence decisively the decisions of jurors and judges. This collection of essays considers this transition from early scenes of popular participation to the much more orderly and professional legal proceedings typical of the nineteenth century, and links this with another important shift, the mushroom growth of popular news and comment about trials and punishments which occurred from the later seventeenth century. It hypothesizes that the popular participation which had been a feature of courtroom proceedings before the mid-eighteenth century was not stifled by ’lawyerization’, but rather partly relocated to the ’public sphere’ of the press, partly because of some changes connected with the work of the lawyers. Ranging from the early 1700s to the mid-nineteenth century, and taking account of criminal justice proceedings in Scotland, as well as England, the essays consider whether pamphlets, newspapers, ballads and crime fiction provided material for critical perceptions of criminal justice proceedings, or alternatively helped to convey the official ’majesty’ intended to legitimize the law. In so doing the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural history of Britain’s legal system over the ’long eighteenth century'.
Download or read book The Common Touch written by Adrian Roscoe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume. However, while interest in such traditional literary types as the ballad and chapbook continued unabated in this period, new forms began to emerge, with the popularity of journals and novels reflecting not only a more diversified readership, but also the rise of prose as a medium for public debate and entertainment. With increasing middle-class literacy filtering down to servants and apprentices, moreover, the voices of the destitute and the social outcast could be increasingly heard, marking a shift from high-born to low-born, from town to country and from men to women (and children) – culminating in the Romantic movement at the end of the century.
Download or read book A catalogue of modern laws books 13 issues written by Stevens and sons, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drunks Whores and Idle Apprentices written by Philip Rawlings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of eighteenth century biographies of street robbers, pickpockets, burglers, horse thieves and confidence tricksters. Background historical information and footnotes are provided.
Download or read book Additions Catalogue of additions made to the Library of Congress written by Washington D.C., libr. of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book catalogue of additions made to the library of congress from dec 1 1864 to dec 1 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexual Perversions 1670 1890 written by J. Peakman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Download or read book Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Index of Subjects in Two Volumes written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Aargau to Lichfield written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth Century England written by Hal Gladfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of transgression–Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve—may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the seventeenth century. In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterizes the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding. Beginning with the various genres of crime narrative, Gladfelder maps a complex network of discourses that collectively embodied the range of responses to the transgressive at the turn of the eighteenth century. In the book's second and third parts, he demonstrates how the discourses of criminality became enmeshed with emerging novelistic conceptions of character and narrative form. With special attention to Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Gladfelder argues that Defoe's narratives concentrate on the forces that shape identity, especially under conditions of outlawry, social dislocation, and urban poverty. He next considers Fielding's double career as author and magistrate, analyzing the interaction between his fiction and such texts as the aggressively polemical Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase in Robbers and his eyewitness accounts of the sensational Canning and Penlez cases. Finally, Gladfelder turns to Godwin's Caleb Williams, Wollstonecraft's Maria, and Inchbald's Nature and Art to reveal the degree to which criminal narrative, by the end of the eighteenth century, had become a necessary vehicle for articulating fundamental cultural anxieties and longings. Crime narratives, he argues, vividly embody the struggles of individuals to define their place in the suddenly unfamiliar world of modernity.
