Dickens’s ‘Young Men’: George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates by P.D. Edwards

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

The eighteenth-century version of the legal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the proof of a case may possibly 'speak for themselves' - was once deserted in 1836, whilst laws enabled barristers to deal with the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with legal. more and more, specialist acts of interpretation have been obvious as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given via eye witnesses at felony trials.

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive topic in all components of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This e-book explores how crime is built and culturally represented via a number parts together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, tune, Criminology, Gender, legislations, Cultural and felony Justice reviews.

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford English Monographs)

This ebook considers the ways that ladies writers used the robust positions of writer and editor to accomplish conventions of gender and style within the Victorian interval. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen wooden, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) along their sensation fiction to discover the at the same time influential innovations of authorship and editorship.

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers: Volume 3 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Poetry)

The focal point of this name, first released in 1989, starts off with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways that we learn them. There are 3 readings for every of the six poems into account which are either complementary and provocative. the chosen poems convey Dickinson conversing of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the surface international, demise and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.