ABSTRACT
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 literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|117 pages
The judgment of the law
chapter 1|18 pages
Cartes de visite and the first mass media photographic images of the English judiciary
Continuity and change
chapter 2|22 pages
Sir Redmond Barry and the trial of Ned Kelly
Representing the judge and judgment in nineteenth-century Australia
chapter 4|18 pages
‘What will most tend towards morality’
Sir Cresswell Cresswell and the Divorce Court, 1858–1863
chapter 5|20 pages
‘Infamous falsehoods’
Judges, perjury and affiliation trials in England, 1855–1930
chapter 6|20 pages
Authoritative judgments in a provincial town
Responses to everyday offending in Plymouth, 1860–1900
part II|102 pages
Judgments in culture
chapter 8|16 pages
The matter of judgment
Comparing gendered perspectives on Victorian legal culture in popular literature
chapter 11|20 pages
‘They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may’
Judging Percy Shelley’s Queen Mab (1813) in the nineteenth century
