Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries

A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and common law Performs transformative interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year periodUncovers the connections between the individual and collective memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itselfDraws on three case studies – adultery, child criminality and rape testimony – to demonstrate the impact of cultural narrative on leg