Women, crime, and character : from Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Label

Women, crime, and character : from Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Title remainder

from Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Statement of responsibility

Nicola Lacey

Creator

• Lacey, Nicola

Subject

• Female offenders -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Female offenders -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Characters | Tess Durbeyfield
• Law -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Law -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Law and literature
• Social change -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Social change -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Social change in literature
• Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 -- Characters | Moll Flanders

Language

eng

Summary

This work draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood gender and social order in 18th and 19th century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with implications for the criminalisation of women

Dewey number

364.374094209033

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized