The History of Reading, Volume 2: Evidence from the British by K. Halsey,W. Owens

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 proof of a case may perhaps 'speak for themselves' - was once deserted in 1836, whilst laws enabled barristers to deal with the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with legal. more and more, expert acts of interpretation have been noticeable as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given via eye witnesses at legal trials.

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

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

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

This publication considers the ways that ladies writers used the robust 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 ideas 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 exhibit Dickinson talking of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the skin international, loss of life and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.