Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion; Public Justice; First Edition

__Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice__ explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. Seeking to reflect on the state of the field, 13 essays by leading and emerging scholars bring cutting-edge research to bear on the intersections between law, print culture and emotion in Britain across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into three sections, this collection explores the ‘public’ as a site of legal sensibility; it demonstrates how the rhetoric of emotion constructed the law in legal practice and in society and culture; and it highlights how approaches from cultural and emotions history have recentred the individual, the biography and the group to explain long-running legal-historical problems. Across this volume, authors evidence how engagements between cultural and legal history have revitalised our understanding of law’s role in eighteenth-century culture and society, not least deepening our understanding of justice as produced with and through the public. This volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the history of emotions as well as the legal history of Britain from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of illustrations 10 List of contributors 11 Preface 14 Acknowledgements 19 1. Public Justice: Legal History and the Cultural Turn 20 PART 1: Sensible Medias 36 2. Fire, Fake News and the Standing Army: Arson and Moral Panics during the Popish Plot, 1678–81 38 3. Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain 57 4. The Press, the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London 80 5. Character and Custody: The Legal Battle of Dr Barnardo and Mrs McHugh 98 PART 2: Emotional Rhetorics and the Law 118 6. The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660–1780 120 7. Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery: The Story of ‘Unhappy’ Mary Bangs 140 8. Bentham’s Hyaena: Humour as Formal Critique in Jeremy Bentham’s Responses to William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 160 9. ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind’? Amelia Opie’s Passion for the Law 179 PART 3: Legal Selves 200 10. Legality, Liberty, and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689–1760 202 11. Garrow for the Prosecution 218 12. Patrick Madan: Avatar of the English Penal Crisis 236 13. Sparing the Noose: Death Sentences and the Pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts, 1763–1868 256 Further Reading 278 Index 285 1 Public Justice; "2 Fire,Fake News and the Standing Army"; 3 Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain; "4 The Press,the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London"; 5 Character and Custody; "6 The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment,1660–1780"; 7 Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery; 8 Bentham's Hyaena; 9 ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind'? Amelia Opie's Passion for the Law; "10 Legality,Liberty,and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England,1689–1760"; 11 Garrow for the Prosecution; 12 Patrick Madan; 13 Sparing the Noose 1 Public Justice,2 Fire, Fake News and the Standing Army,3 Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain,4 The Press, the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London,5 Character and Custody,6 The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660–1780,7 Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery,8 Bentham's Hyaena,9 ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind'? Amelia Opie's Passion for the Law,10 Legality, Liberty, and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689–1760,11 Garrow for the Prosecution,12 Patrick Madan,13 Sparing the Noose "Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of a long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. This volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the history of emotions as well as the legal history of Britain from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher