Law, Equity and Romantic Writing : Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism)

Demson, Michael (EDT)/ Hewitt, Regina (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2024/09発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2024/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399500371
• DDC分類 809.9145

Full Description

This volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the "age of revolutions" (c. 1750 1850), marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the law, revealing how people perceive the fairness of a given legal order and work with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of conscience. The volume updates analysis of this conflict between law and equity by drawing on the concept of "epistemic injustice" to describe the harm done to personal identity and collective flourishing by the uneven distribution of resources and the wish to punish breaches of order. It shows how writing and reading can foment inquiries into the meanings of 'justice' and 'equity' and aid efforts to humanize the rule of law.

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Part I: Discerning Principles

Introduction to Part I: Discerning Principles, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt;

1. Law, Religion and Changing Ideas of Innocence in Romantic Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm

2. Adam Smith on Resentment and Retribution, Victoria Myers

3. Indianism and the Last Performance of Edmund Burke, Padma Rangarajan

4. The Trial of Queen Caroline: Radical Spectacle, Caricature and the Triumph of Public Opinion in the Shadow of the Six Acts, Ian Haywood

5. Legal Vengeance and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian, Melissa J. Ganz

Part II: Refining Standards

Introduction to Part II: Refining Standards, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt

6. Rehabilitating Jacobites in Romantic-Era Britain: The Cultural Memory of the 1745 Rising in Thomas Campbell's 'Lochiel's Warning' and Anne Grant's 'The Highlanders', Leith Davis

7. Jews Performing Remorse: The Trials and Tribulations of John 'Jew' King and His Daughters, Michael Scrivener

8. Fugitive Morality in Two Scots Poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the Law, Gerard Carruthers and Moira Hansen

9. 'The Past is Irrevocable': Justice, Punishment and Irish Romantic Writing, James Kelly

10. Flogging Phelim: Christian Isobel Johnstone, the Perils of Injustice and the Promise of Reform, Elizabeth Kraft

Part III: Affirming Resistances

Introduction to Part III: Affirming Resistances, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt

11. Reparatory Justice and the Afterlives of Slavery in Twenty-first-century Creative Rememberings of Mary Prince, Sue Thomas

12. John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification, Timothy Clark

13. Prison Hulks in Romantic Seascapes, Michael Demson

Index