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Women, Crime, and Character - From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardcover)
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Women, Crime, and Character - From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Law Lectures
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In the early 18th Century, Daniel Defoe found it natural to write a
novel whose heroine was a sexually adventurous, socially marginal
property offender. Only half a century later, this would have been
next to unthinkable. Lacey explores the disappearance of Moll, and
her supercession in the annals of literary female offenders by
heroines like Tess, serving as a metaphor for fundamental changes
in ideas of selfhood, gender and social order in 18th and 19th
Century England. Drawing on law, literature, philosophy and social
history, she argues that these broad changes underpinned a radical
shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with decisive
implications for the criminalization of women.
This book examines how the treatment and understanding of female
criminality was changing during the era which saw the construction
of the main building blocks of the modern criminal process, and of
how these understandings related in turn to broader ideas about
gender, social order and individual agency. Lacey tells the story
of the shifting relationship between informal codes of norms such
as the 'cult of sensibility' and the formal system of criminal
justice, and of the impact on women and on understandings of
femininity of these complementary systems of discipline. By drawing
on a wide variety of sources, it casts light into corners which
remain obscure in accounts informed by a single discipline.
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