(Source: Routledge)
Routledge has
published a book on the judges, judgment and judgmentalism in the Victorian
Era.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
James Gregory is Associate Professor in
Modern British History at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications
are 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).
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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