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Zusatztext original and illimunating... [An] engrossing historical narrative... Informationen zum Autor Nicola Lacey is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford. Klappentext This book draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th Century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with decisive implications for the criminalisation of women. Zusammenfassung This book draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th Century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with decisive implications for the criminalisation of women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Hermione Lee Preface and acknowledgements A note on the text I: Don't go to murder my character: criminal responsibility in the age of Moll Flanders II: What is the use of a woman's will?: the demise of Moll in the age of sensibility III: The weaker half of the human family?: responsibility, mind and morals in the age of Tess Bibliography
