Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800
Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660–1800

Author: Anne Leah Greenfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1317318854

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The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine the underlying ideologies that spawned these representations, confronting the social, political, legal and aesthetic conditions of the day.

Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century
Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century

Author: David Lemmings

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0429678460

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This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First, crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about government. Second, "performativity" and speech act theory are considered in the context of the Anglo-Irish criminal trial, which was transformed over the course of this period from an unmediated exchange between victim and accused to a fully lawyerized performance. Thirdly, the authors apply recent scholarship on the history of emotions, particularly relating to the constitution of "emotional communities" and changes in "emotional regimes".