Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tolbooth Door
- Part I ADULTERY AS ACTUS REUS
- 1 Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty
- 2 The Gothic Law of Marriage
- PART II CHILD CRIMINALITY AS MENS REA
- 3 The “Faerie Court” of Child Punishment
- PART III THE RAPE VICTIM AS EVIDENCE
- 4 The Rape Novel and Reputation Evidence
- 5 Literary Rape Trials and the Trauma of National Identity
- Coda: Leaving Midlothian
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Tolbooth Door
- Part I ADULTERY AS ACTUS REUS
- 1 Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty
- 2 The Gothic Law of Marriage
- PART II CHILD CRIMINALITY AS MENS REA
- 3 The “Faerie Court” of Child Punishment
- PART III THE RAPE VICTIM AS EVIDENCE
- 4 The Rape Novel and Reputation Evidence
- 5 Literary Rape Trials and the Trauma of National Identity
- Coda: Leaving Midlothian
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020