Women, crime, and character : from Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Nicola Lacey.

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...

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Main Author: Lacey, Nicola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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