Law, Equity and Romantic Writing

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Part I: Discerning Principles

Introduction to Part I: Discerning Principles, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt;



1. Law, Religion and Changing Ideas of Innocence in Romantic Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm



2. Adam Smith on Resentment and Retribution, Victoria Myers



3. Indianism and the Last Performance of Edmund Burke, Padma Rangarajan



4. The Trial of Queen Caroline: Radical Spectacle, Caricature and the Triumph of Public Opinion in the Shadow of the Six Acts, Ian Haywood

5. Legal Vengeance and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian, Melissa J. Ganz



Part II: Refining Standards



Introduction to Part II: Refining Standards, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt



6. Rehabilitating Jacobites in Romantic-Era Britain: The Cultural Memory of the 1745 Rising in Thomas Campbell's 'Lochiel's Warning' and Anne Grant's 'The Highlanders', Leith Davis

7. Jews Performing Remorse: The Trials and Tribulations of John 'Jew' King and His Daughters, Michael Scrivener

8. Fugitive Morality in Two Scots Poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the Law, Gerard Carruthers and Moira Hansen



9. 'The Past is Irrevocable': Justice, Punishment and Irish Romantic Writing, James Kelly



10. Flogging Phelim: Christian Isobel Johnstone, the Perils of Injustice and the Promise of Reform, Elizabeth Kraft



Part III: Affirming Resistances



Introduction to Part III: Affirming Resistances, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt





11. Reparatory Justice and the Afterlives of Slavery in Twenty-first-century Creative Rememberings of Mary Prince, Sue Thomas



12. John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification, Timothy Clark



13. Prison Hulks in Romantic Seascapes, Michael Demson



Index



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Romanticism; Justice; Equity; Remorse; Reform; Rights