Overview

This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.

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Author:   James Gregory (Plymouth University, UK) ,  Daniel J.R. Grey (Plymouth University, UK) ,  Annika Bautz (Plymouth University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367584726

ISBN 10:   0367584727
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: The Judgment of the Law; 1. Cartes de visite and the First Mass Media Photographic Images of the English Judiciary: Continuity and Change Leslie J. Moran; 2. Sir Redmond Barry and the Trial of Ned Kelly: representing the Judge and Judgment in Nineteenth-Century Australia Alice Richardson; 3. The Emotional Reactions of Judges in Cases of Maternal Child Murder in England, 1840 –1900 Alison Pedley; 4. ‘What Will Most Tend Towards Morality’: Sir Cresswell Cresswell and the Divorce Court, 1858-1863 Gail Savage; 5. ‘Infamous Falsehoods’: Judges, Perjury, and Affiliation Trials in England, 1855–1930 Ginger Frost; 6. Authoritative Judgments in a Provincial Town: Responses to Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1860 – 1900 Kim Stevenson and Iain Channing; PART II: Judgments in Culture; 7. Judging the Judges: The Image of the Judge in the Popular Illustrated Press Craig Newbery-Jones; 8. The Matter of Judgment: Comparing Gendered Perspectives on Victorian Legal Culture in Popular Literature Judith Rowbotham; 9. The Operation and Representation of Art Judgment James Gregory; 10. Judging by the Hand: Handwriting and Character in Victorian Literary Culture Karin Koehler; 11. ‘They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may’: judging Percy Shelley’s Queen Mab (1813) in the nineteenth century Cian Duffy; Index

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James Gregory is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications is The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014). Daniel J.R. Grey is Lecturer in World History since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. Among his recent publications are articles in Cultural and Social History, History Workshop Journal and Media History. Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth. Recent publications include, with James Gregory, Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 (Routledge, 2018).

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