Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796John Barrell, Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John Barrell Oxford University Press, 2000 - 737 páginas It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable. |
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Contenido
I The Last Interview | 45 |
When Kings are Hurled from their Thrones | 83 |
Convention and Conspiracy | 107 |
The British Convention | 122 |
The Trial of Thomas Walker | 150 |
Secret Committees | 162 |
The Arming of the LCS | 190 |
Parliament and Prejudication | 211 |
The Trial of Thomas Hardy | 296 |
The Trials of Tooke and Thelwall | 344 |
A Conspiracy without Conspirators | 366 |
The PopGun Plot A Tragicomedy by Thomas Upton | 409 |
Traitor or Lunatic The Arrest of Richard Brothers | 462 |
The Treasonable Practices Act | 507 |
King Killing | 558 |
Fire Famine and Slaughter | 577 |
The Trials of Watt and Downie | 232 |
The Charge to the Grand Jury | 265 |
Plant Plant the Tree | 587 |
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| Título | Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796 |
| Autores | John Barrell, Professor of English and Co-Director Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies John Barrell |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0198112920, 9780198112921 |
| Largo | 737 páginas |
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