Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings from early scenes of noise and disorder, to a much more rigid and solemn atmosphere by the start of the nineteenth century. Through an investigation into the extent to which legal proceedings may be understood as theatre and counter-theatre, the impact of lawyers' intervention in the courtroom, and the role and impact of print media in relation to trials, the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural dimensions of Britain's law courts.
Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings from early scenes of noise and disorder, to a much more rigid and solemn atmosphere by the start of the nineteenth century. Through an investigation into the extent to which legal proceedings may be understood as theatre and counter-theatre, the impact of lawyers' intervention in the courtroom, and the role and impact of print media in relation to trials, the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural dimensions of Britain's law courts.
David Lemmings was born in London and educated at the Universities of Sussex, London and Oxford before coming to Australia as a Research Fellow of the University of Adelaide in 1987. He then moved to the University of Newcastle in 1990 where he became Head of the Department of History in 1998 and Associate Professor in History in 2000. In 2008, Professor Lemmings moved to the University of Adelaide where he is Professor of History and leader of the Change Program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Criminal Courts Lawyers and the Public Sphere David Lemmings; Chapter 2 Trials in Print: Narratives of Rape Trials in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey Esther Snell; Chapter 3 'Useful and entertaining to the generality of Readers': Selecting the Select Trials 1718-1764 Andrea McKenzie; Chapter 4 Representing the Adversary Criminal Trial: Lawyers in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1770-1800 Robert Shoemaker; Chapter 5 Arts of Public Performance: Barristers and Actors in Georgian England Simon Devereaux; Chapter 6 Negotiating Justice in the New Public Sphere: Crime the Courts and the Press in Early Eighteenth-century Britain David Lemmings; Chapter 7 Contemplating the Evil Within: Examining Attitudes to Criminality in Scotland 1700-1840 Anne-Marie Kilday; Chapter 8 Fiction or 'Faction'? Literary Representations of the Early Nineteenth-century Criminal Courtroom Allyson N. May; Chapter 9 Publishing Courtroom Drama for the Masses 1820-1855 Rosalind Crone;
Chapter 1 Introduction: Criminal Courts Lawyers and the Public Sphere David Lemmings; Chapter 2 Trials in Print: Narratives of Rape Trials in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey Esther Snell; Chapter 3 'Useful and entertaining to the generality of Readers': Selecting the Select Trials 1718-1764 Andrea McKenzie; Chapter 4 Representing the Adversary Criminal Trial: Lawyers in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1770-1800 Robert Shoemaker; Chapter 5 Arts of Public Performance: Barristers and Actors in Georgian England Simon Devereaux; Chapter 6 Negotiating Justice in the New Public Sphere: Crime the Courts and the Press in Early Eighteenth-century Britain David Lemmings; Chapter 7 Contemplating the Evil Within: Examining Attitudes to Criminality in Scotland 1700-1840 Anne-Marie Kilday; Chapter 8 Fiction or 'Faction'? Literary Representations of the Early Nineteenth-century Criminal Courtroom Allyson N. May; Chapter 9 Publishing Courtroom Drama for the Masses 1820-1855 Rosalind Crone;
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