Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold

Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Author: Horace Bleackley
Publsiher: Litres
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9785040755387

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"Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold" by Horace Bleackley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

SOME DISTINGUISHED VICTIMS OF

SOME DISTINGUISHED VICTIMS OF
Author: Horace Bleackley
Publsiher: Echo Library
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1406879029

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An account of several high profile criminal cases from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. First published in 1905.

Blood Ink

Blood   Ink
Author: Albert Borowitz
Publsiher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0873386930

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The interplay between crime fact and crime fiction can be detected back to literature's earliest beginnings. True crime has long been the basis of many plots of memorable literature - from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to Jean Genet's play The Maids, there has often been blood on the page.

The First Forensic Hanging

The First Forensic Hanging
Author: Summer Strevens
Publsiher: Pen and Sword History
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781526736215

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‘For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press. Opinions are certainly still divided on the matter of Mary’s ‘intention’ in the poisoning of her father, and the extent to which her coercive lover, Captain William Cranstoun, was responsible for this murder by proxy. Yet Mary Blandy’s trial was also notable in that it was the first time that detailed medical evidence had been presented in a court of law on a charge of murder by poisoning, and the first time that any court had accepted toxicological evidence in an arsenic poisoning case. The forensic legacy of the acceptance of Dr Anthony Addington’s application of chemistry to a criminal investigation is another compelling aspect of The First Forensic Hanging.

The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment Volume 3

The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment  Volume 3
Author: Peter Hodgkinson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351887472

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This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in particular the personal complexities of those involved, a fundamental part of the subject usually overridden by the theoretical and legal aspects of the debate. The unique personal vantage offered by this volume makes it essential reading for anyone interested in going beyond the removed theoretical understanding of the death penalty, to better comprehending its fundamental humanity. Additionally, the international range of the analysis, enabling disaggregation of country specific motivations, ensures the complexities of the death penalty are also considered from a global perspective.

Sexual Perversions 1670 1890

Sexual Perversions  1670   1890
Author: J. Peakman
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780230244689

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A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781350354586

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In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison. Tambling examines crime and punishment in Dickens's novels Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Bleak House and explores those who influenced Dickens's work, including Hogarth, Fielding, Godwin and Edgar Allen Poe. This book also looks at those who influenced Derrida – Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault and Blanchot – and considers Derrida's study on terrorism and the USA as the only major democracy adhering to the death penalty. A comprehensive study of punishment in Dickens, and furthering Derrida's insights by commenting on Shakespeare and blood, revenge, the French Revolution, and the enduring power of violence and its fascination, this book is a major contribution to literary criticism on Dickens and Derrida. Those interested in literature, criminology, law, gender, and psychoanalysis will find it an essential intervention in a topic still rousing intense argument.

Making Stars

Making Stars
Author: Nora Nachumi,Kristina Straub
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781644532669

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In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.