The Culture Of Equity In Restoration And Eighteenth Century Britain And America
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The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Britain and America
Author | : Mark Fortier |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317036630 |
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Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier’s bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006). The earlier volume traced the meanings and usage of equity in broad cultural terms (including but not limited to law) to position equity as a keyword of valuation, persuasion, and understanding; the present volume carries that work through the Restoration and eighteenth century in Britain and America. Fortier argues that equity continued to be a keyword, used and contested in many of the major social and political events of the period. Further, he argues that equity needs to be seen in this period largely outside the Aristotelian parameters that have generally been assumed in scholarship on equity.
The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age
Author | : James Gregory |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350142459 |
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In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
Mercy and British Culture 1760 1960
Author | : James Gregory |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781350142602 |
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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Trust and Distrust
Author | : Mark Knights |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2022-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198796244 |
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Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival material, Knights shows how corruption in the domestic and imperial spheres interacted, and how the concept of corruption developed during this period, changing British ideas of trust and distrust.
The Law of Freedom
Author | : Daniel L. Rentfro |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781532651007 |
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The Law of Freedom: Justice and Mercy in the Practice of Law examines the legal and theological roots of the concept of equity, and the implications that the diminishment of equity as a legal concept has for the moral dilemmas faced by the practicing lawyer. Meditating on the book of Micah, the book argues that the Christian duty asks for both strict justice and gracious mercy, with the prophet’s third value—humility—essential for both the individual lawyer and the legal system as a whole to balance strict justice and mercy.
OuterSpeares
Author | : Daniel Fischlin |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2014-11-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781442669376 |
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For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media affect how we understand Shakespeare and his works. Daniel Fischlin and his collaborators explore a wide selection of adaptations that occupy the space between and across traditional genres – what artist Dick Higgins calls “intermedia” – ranging from adaptations that use social networking, cloud computing, and mobile devices to the many handicrafts branded and sold in connection with the Bard. With essays on YouTube and iTunes, as well as radio, television, and film, OuterSpeares is the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers a unique perspective on the transcultural and transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world.
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton
Author | : Susan E. Whyman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9780198797838 |
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Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the rapidly-expanding city of Birmingham.
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Author | : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317135883 |
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Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.