Free Download Elwin Hofman, "Trials of the self: Murder, mayhem and the remaking of the mind, 1750-1830 "
English | ISBN: 1526153149 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 413 KB
This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statements,
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