Buckley: Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture by Jerome H. Buckley

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

The eighteenth-century version of the felony trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the evidence of a case may 'speak for themselves' - used to be deserted in 1836, whilst laws enabled barristers to handle the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with criminal. more and more, specialist acts of interpretation have been visible as essential to in achieving a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given via eye witnesses at felony trials.

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive subject matter in all parts of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This ebook explores how crime is developed and culturally represented via more than a few components together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, track, Criminology, Gender, legislation, Cultural and felony Justice experiences.

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford English Monographs)

This publication considers the ways that girls writers used the strong positions of writer and editor to accomplish conventions of gender and style within the Victorian interval. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen wooden, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) along their sensation fiction to discover the at the same time influential suggestions of authorship and editorship.

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers: Volume 3 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Poetry)

The focal point of this identify, first released in 1989, starts off with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways that we learn them. There are 3 readings for every of the six poems into account which are either complementary and provocative. the chosen poems express Dickinson talking of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the skin international, dying and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.