{"product_id":"criminality-and-the-common-law-erin-sheley-9781474450119","title":"Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy accessing penal history through the mediator of individual memory authors can be seen to depict the cumulative dialogue between the English common law and its cultural representations across historical time. Offering legal readings of works by authors including \u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003ehomas Hardy, Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson, George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Henry Fielding and Sir Walter Scott; this book explores this literary phenomenon and its legal significance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In doing so it argues that the importance of precedent in Anglo-American common law creates a unique discourse of historical legitimacy that shapes both the cultural and official conceptions of criminality itself during this period. Within a Foucauldian framework, the book illustrates how the cultural memory of crime and punishment contribute to the development of formal and informal penal institutions. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Generates a new framework for analysing the relationship between individual and cultural narratives, literary texts, and the cumulative \"truth\" created by the common law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Provides three case studies of adultery, child criminality, and rape testimony that demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on legal development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Legal readings of works by authors including \u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003ehomas Hardy, Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson, George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Transformative readings of widely read works including Charles Brockden Brown's \u003ci\u003eWieland \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOrmond, \u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Hardy's \u003ci\u003eTess of the d'Urbervilles, \u003c\/i\u003eCharles Kingsley's \u003ci\u003eThe Water-Babies\u003c\/i\u003e, Alfred Tennyson's \u003ci\u003eIdylls of the King, \u003c\/i\u003eCharlotte Brontë's Jayne Eyre, Henry Fielding's \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Husband \u003c\/i\u003eand Sir Walter Scott 's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Midlothian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Sheley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474450113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474450119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Erin Sheley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993203540223,"sku":"9781474450119","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88dc2e9f-6229-40a4-a037-79cc60cfb9c7.jpg?v=1683323071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/criminality-and-the-common-law-erin-sheley-9781474450119","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}