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Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796 Hardcover - 2000
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- Title Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
- Author Barrell, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- ISBN 9780198112921
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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0198112920 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 737 pages. "It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a 'modern' form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a…
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