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Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England

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Editors:
  1. David Lemmings

    1. University of Adelaide, Australia

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  2. Claire Walker

    1. University of Adelaide, Australia

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Law and Order, Moral Panics, and Early Modern England

    • David Lemmings
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning

    • David Rowe
    Pages 22-40

  4. ‘This Newe Army of Satan’: The Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion in Elizabethan England

    • Alexandra Walsham
    Pages 41-62

  5. Cross-Dressing and Pamphleteering in Early Seventeenth-Century London

    • Anna Bayman
    Pages 63-77

  6. Fear Made Flesh: The English Witch-Panic of 1645–7

    • Malcolm Gaskill
    Pages 78-96

  7. ‘A sainct in shewe, a Devill in deede’: Moral Panics and Anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century England

    • Tim Harris
    Pages 97-116

  8. ‘Remember Justice Godfrey’: The Popish Plot and the Construction of Panic in Seventeenth-Century Media

    • Claire Walker
    Pages 117-138

  9. The Dark Side of Enlightenment: The London Journal, Moral Panics, and the Law in the Eighteenth Century

    • David Lemmings
    Pages 139-156

  10. Forgers and Forgery: Severity and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century England

    • Randall McGowen
    Pages 157-175

  11. ‘How frail are Lovers vows, and Dicers oaths’: Gaming, Governing and Moral Panic in Britain, 1781–1782

    • Donna T. Andrew
    Pages 176-194

  12. A Moral Panic in Eighteenth-Century London? The ‘Monster’ and the Press

    • Cindy McCreery
    Pages 195-220

  13. The British Jacobins: Folk Devils in the Age of Counter-Revolution?

    • Michael T. Davis
    Pages 221-244

  14. Conclusion: Moral Panics, Law and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England

    • David Lemmings
    Pages 245-266

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-279
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About this book

An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft.

Reviews

'This wide-ranging yet thematically cohesive collection succeeds not only in showcasing the talents of some of the leading historians of early modern England, but in raising fascinating questions about the relationship between the law, the press and elite and popular opinion and mentalities.'

- English Historical Review

'There is a great deal to admire in this volume, which brings together a particulalry accomplished and distinguished set of contributors, and has much to say about the complex and shifting relations between authority, information and opinion.'

- Peter Marshall, History

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Adelaide, Australia

    David Lemmings, Claire Walker

About the editors

DONNA ANDREW Professor of History, the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada ANNA BAYMAN Assistant Editor for the English Historical Review and Faculty of History, University of Oxford, UK MICHAEL DAVIS Lecturer in History, the University of Tasmania, Australia MALCOLM GASKILL Reader in Early Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK TIM HARRIS Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA DAVID LEMMINGS Professor of History, the University of Adelaide, Australia DAVID ROWE Director of the Centre for Cultural Research (CCR), University of Western Sydney, Australia CINDY MCCREERY Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Sydney, Australia RANDALL MCGOWEN Professor of History, the University of Oregon, USA CLAIRE WALKER Lecturer in History, the University of Adelaide, Australia ALEXANDRA WALSHAM Professor of History, the University of Exeter, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England

  • Editors: David Lemmings, Claire Walker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274679

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-52732-4Published: 30 November 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35806-9Published: 30 November 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27467-9Published: 30 November 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 279

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History

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