Imagining the King's Death

Name: Imagining the King's Death
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SKU: 9780198112921
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Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

Autor: John Barrell

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It is high treason in British law to 'imagine' the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XV...

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Autor

John Barrell

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2000

strony

756

EAN

9780198112921

ISBN

0198112920

Enbook ID

04521467

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

1234

Wymiary

243 x 166 x 44

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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, an imaginary, 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 inescapable.

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