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This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within imaginative literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgement were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgemental was viewed.
List of contents
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
About the author
James Gregory is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Plymouth. Among his publications is The Poetry and the Politics: Radical Reform in Victorian England (2014).
Daniel J.R. Grey is Lecturer in World History since 1800 at the University of Plymouth. Among his recent publications are articles in Cultural and Social History, History Workshop Journal and Media History.
Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth. Recent publications include, with James Gregory, Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 (Routledge, 2018).
Summary
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within imaginative literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgement were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgemental was viewed.
