(Source: Manchester University Press)
Manchester
University Press is publishing a book on the “performance of 'the self' within
the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society
and nation”
ABOUT THE BOOK
Men on trial explores
how the Irish perform 'the self' within the early nineteenth-century courtroom
and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies
from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and
performative space, it emphasises that manliness was not simply a cultural
ideal, but something practised, felt and embodied. Men on trial explores how
gender could be a creative dynamic in productions of power. Targeted at
scholars in Irish history, law and gender studies, this book argues that
justice was not simply determined through weighing evidence, but through
weighing men, their bodies, behaviours, and emotions. Moreover, in a context
where the processes of justice were publicised in the press for the nation and
the world, manliness and its role in the creation of justice became implicated
in the making of national identity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Katie Barclay is
a Senior Lecturer in the ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions
and Department of History, University of Adelaide
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Opening
speeches: an introduction
1. Law and
lawyers: 'the prerogative of the wig'
2. The stage:
'the court presented a very imposing spectacle'
3. Bodies in
court: 'Hogarth would have admired him forever'
4. Speech,
sympathy and eloquence: 'it is a voice full of manly melody'
5. The
cross-examination: 'he's putting me in such a doldrum'
6. Storytelling:
'quoting the poet'
7. On character:
'you see McDonnell the value of a good character'
Closing
arguments: a conclusion
Select
Bibliography
Index
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