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from Moll Flanders to Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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.
'Don't go to murder my character': criminal responsibility in the age of Moll Flanders -- 'What is the use of a woman's will?': the demise of Moll in the age of sensibility -- 'The weaker half of the human family'?: responsibility, mind and morals in the age of Tess.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-144) and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008