Men on trial explores how the Irish perform 'the self' within the
early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law,
society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history
of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative
space, it emphasises that manliness was not simply a cultural
ideal, but something practised, felt and embodied. Men on trial
explores how gender could be a creative dynamic in productions of
power. Targeted at scholars in Irish history, law and gender
studies, this book argues that justice was not simply determined
through weighing evidence, but through weighing men, their bodies,
behaviours, and emotions. Moreover, in a context where the
processes of justice were publicised in the press for the nation
and the world, manliness and its role in the creation of justice
became implicated in the making of national identity. -- .
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