Charlotte Riddell's City Novels and Victorian Business: by Silvana Colella

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

The eighteenth-century version of the legal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the evidence of a case may perhaps 'speak for themselves' - was once deserted in 1836, whilst laws enabled barristers to handle the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with legal. more and more, specialist acts of interpretation have been noticeable as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by means of eye witnesses at legal trials.

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

Crime and criminals are a pervasive subject matter in all components of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This booklet explores how crime is built and culturally represented via quite a number components together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, song, Criminology, Gender, legislation, Cultural and felony Justice reports.

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

This ebook 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 options of authorship and editorship.

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

The point of interest 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 convey Dickinson talking of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the skin international, demise and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.