Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series
Auteur : Martin Randall
This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.
1 Introduction
2 Equity and self-defense in female homicide news
3 Confession, conversion, and tactical resistance
4 Women and Poison
5 Changing representations of infanticide and child murder
6 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Date de parution : 06-2012
Ouvrage de 300 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 12-2007
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England :
Mots-clés :
Early Modern; Early Modern News; henry; Henry Goodcole; goodcole; Female Homicide; seventeenth; Murder News; century; Crime News; news; Seventeenth Century News; female; News Pamphlet; homicide; Hellish Murder; pamphlet; Petty Treason; anne; Murder Pamphlets; saunders; Popular News; Prison Visitors; Poisoning Homicide; Infanticide News; News Ballads; Gallows Speeches; Yellow Arsenic; Young Man; Domestick Intelligence; Temporal Re-orientation; Mercury Sublimate; Abigail Hill; Assize Trials; Eighteenth Century Fiction
