Sites of Discourse – Public and Private Spheres – Legal Culture

Abstract

Gert MELVILLE: Institutions and the Public Sphere: Some Preliminary Remarks Peter Uwe HOHENDAHL: The Theory of the Public Sphere Revisited Jurgen SCHLAEGER: A Reckoning without the Host: Public and Private Spheres in the Eighteenth Century Uwe BOKER: Institutionalised Rules of Discourse and the Court Room as a Site of the Public Sphere Juliet H. WIGHTMAN: 'All the world is but a bear-baiting' -Violence and Popular Culture in the Renaissance Alastair MANN: Parliaments, Princes, and Presses: Voices of Tradition and Protest in Early Modern Scotland Annette PANKRATZ: Over the King's Bodies: The Emerging Public Sphere in Seventeenth-Century England Heinz-Joachim MULLENBROCK: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century England Ian A. BELL: Literature, Crime, and Society in Eighteenth-Century England Beth SWAN: Defoe and the Criminal Lawyer: Eighteenth Century Ideologies of Justice Greta OLSON: Keyholes in Eighteenth-Century Novels as Liminal Spaces between the Public and Private Spheres Christoph HOUSWITSCHKA: Family, Crime, and the Public Sphere: 'Incest' in Eighteenth-Century England Anna-Christina GIOVANOPOULOS: Alsatian Eccentricities: An Initial Appraisal of a Nineteenth-Century Collection of Eighteenth-Century News on Crime Eckhart HELLMUTH: Criticising the Constitution: or, How to Talk about the Liberty of the Press in the 1790s Uwe BOKER: The Prison and the Penitentiary as Sites of Public Counter-Discourse York-Gothart MIX: 'Ubi libertas, ibi patria': The Interculturality of German-American Popular Almanacs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.