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Rabin, D.

 
9781403934444: Identity, Crime, And Legal Responsibility In Eighteenth-Century England
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1403934444 ISBN 13 : 9781403934444
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. With their reputations or lives at stake, men and women presented their complex emotions and passions as grounds for acquittal or mitigation of punishment. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation. Outside the courtroom the language of the mind reflected society's preoccupation with questions of sensibility, responsibility, and the self.

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À propos de l'auteur

DANA RABIN is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of early modern Britain with an emphasis on law, gender, emotion, and identity and is the author of "Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials, 1730-1800".

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1403934444
ISBN 13 
9781403934444
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
243
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