Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

Dr James Gregory (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14258-9 (ISBN)

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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code.

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy’s religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.

James Gregory is Associate Professor of Modern British History at Plymouth University, UK. He is the author of Victorians and Vegetarians (2007), Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists (2010), Victorians Against the Gallows (2011), The Poetry and the Politics (2014) and Libraries, Books and Collectors of Texts, 1600–1900 (2018).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Religion, culture and embodiment

1 Mercy: Religious and philosophical dimensions
2 The culture of mercy in the long nineteenth century
3 Merciful agents and subjects

Part 2 Mercy challenged

4 Mercy for Ireland
5 British mercy and the French Revolution
6 Empire of mercy
7 The mercy of war

Conclusion: Modern mercy

Notes

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-14258-1 / 1350142581
ISBN-13	978-1-350-14258-9 / 9781350142589
Zustand	Neuware