1st Edition
Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion Public Justice
1. Public Justice: Legal History and the Cultural Turn
Katie Barclay and Amy Milka
Part 1: Sensible Medias
2. Fire, Fake News and the Standing Army: Arson and Moral Panics during the Popish Plot, 1678–81
Andrea McKenzie
3. Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain
Mark Neuendorf
4. The Press, the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
Joanne McEwan
5. Character and Custody: The Legal Battle of Dr. Barnardo and Mrs McHugh
Michael Lobban
Part 2: Emotional Rhetorics and the Law
6. The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660–1780
Katie Barclay
7. Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery: The Story of ‘Unhappy’ Mary Bangs
Emily Ireland
8. Bentham’s Hyaena: Humour as Formal Critique in Jeremy Bentham’s Responses to William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
Kathryn D. Temple
9. ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind’: Amelia Opie’s Passion for the Law
Amy Milka
Part 3: Legal Selves
10. Legality, Liberty, and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689–1760
Wilfrid Prest
11. Garrow for the Prosecution
Allyson N. May
12. Patrick Madan: Avatar of the English Penal Crisis
Simon Devereaux
13. Sparing the Noose: Death Sentences and the Pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts, 1763–1868
Robert Shoemaker
Biography
Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, law, gender and family life.
Amy Milka is a researcher in eighteenth-century history, literature and culture at the University of Adelaide.
