Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England - by D Rabin (Paperback)
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Highlights
- During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind.
- About the Author: DANA RABIN is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 234 Pages
- History, Europe
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Book 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.Review Quotes
- '[Rabin] give[s] weight to abstractions like 'sensibility' as actual forces in the courtroom and in the reform movement.'
Paul Baines, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.1, 2008
About the Author
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".Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 234
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: Great Britain, General
Format: Paperback
Author: D Rabin
Language: English
Street Date: January 1, 2004
TCIN: 94259393
UPC: 9781349517169
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-8320
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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