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