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Trials of the Self: Murder, Mayhem and the Remaking of the Mind, 1750-1830 - Couverture rigide

Livre 14 sur 14: Studies in Early Modern European History

Hofman, Elwin

 
9781526153142: Trials of the Self: Murder, Mayhem and the Remaking of the Mind, 1750-1830
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1526153149 ISBN 13 : 9781526153142
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2021

Synopsis

This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statements, Trials of the self shows that an increasing stress on psychological depth in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not only important for elites, but also for common and illiterate people - sometimes even more so.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elwin Hofman is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders, KU Leuven

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1526153149
ISBN 13 
9781526153142
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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