ISBN:
0230527329
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9780230527324
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 279 p)
,
ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Knights, Mark Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Edited by David Lemmings and Claire Walker. Pp. xi+279 incl. 6 ills. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. £55. 978 0 230 52732 4 2012
Parallel Title:
Print version Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
DDC:
302/.17
Keywords:
Moral panics History
;
England Moral conditions
;
Public opinion
Abstract:
"This book explores and exemplifies some of the subtler links between opinion, governance and law in early modern England by investigating moral panics. Modern media-driven 'law and order' panics may have originated in eighteenth-century England, with the development of the press and government sensibility to opinion, but there were earlier panics about witchcraft and popery. Essays by an experienced team of scholars discuss broadly episodes of moral panic before and after 1689, and consider their implications for changes in governance"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Note on Works Cited in Endnotes; 1 Introduction: Law and Order, Moral Panics, and Early Modern England; 2 The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning; 3 'This Newe Army of Satan': The Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion in Elizabethan England; 4 Cross-dressing and Pamphleteering in Early Seventeenth-Century London; 5 Fear made Flesh: The English Witch-Panic of 1645-7; 6 'A sainct in shewe, a Devill in deede': Moral Panics and Anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century England
Description / Table of Contents:
7 'Remember Justice Godfrey': The Popish Plot and the Construction of Panic in Seventeenth-Century Media8 The Dark Side of Enlightenment: The London Journal, Moral Panics, and the Law in the Eighteenth Century; 9 Forgers and Forgery: Severity and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century England; 10 'How frail are Lovers vows, and Dicers oaths': Gaming, Governing and Moral Panic in Britain, 1781-1782; 11 A Moral Panic in Eighteenth-Century London? The 'Monster' and the Press; 12 The British Jacobins: Folk devils in the Age of Counter-Revolution?
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Conclusion: Moral Panics, Law and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Early Modern EnglandIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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