Judgment in the Victorian Age

Contents;

List of Figures;

Notes on Contributors;

Acknowledgments;

Introduction;

PART I: The Judgment of the Law;

1. Cartes de visite and the First Mass Media Photographic Images of the English Judiciary: Continuity and Change

Leslie J. Moran;

2. Sir Redmond Barry and the Trial of Ned Kelly: representing the Judge and Judgment in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Alice Richardson;

3. The Emotional Reactions of Judges in Cases of Maternal Child Murder in England, 1840 –1900

Alison Pedley;

4. ‘What Will Most Tend Towards Morality’: Sir Cresswell Cresswell and the Divorce Court, 1858-1863

Gail Savage;

5. ‘Infamous Falsehoods’: Judges, Perjury, and Affiliation Trials in England, 1855–1930

Ginger Frost;

6. Authoritative Judgments in a Provincial Town: Responses to Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1860 – 1900

Kim Stevenson and Iain Channing;

PART II: Judgments in Culture;

7. Judging the Judges: The Image of the Judge in the Popular Illustrated Press

Craig Newbery-Jones;

8. The Matter of Judgment: Comparing Gendered Perspectives on Victorian Legal Culture in Popular Literature

Judith Rowbotham;

9. The Operation and Representation of Art Judgment

James Gregory;

10. Judging by the Hand: Handwriting and Character in Victorian Literary Culture

Karin Koehler;

11. ‘They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may’: judging Percy Shelley’s Queen Mab (1813) in the nineteenth century

Cian Duffy;

Index