Newbery-Jones, C orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-0519 (2014) Legal Heroes and Practising Villains in the Nineteenth Century Press. Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review, 6 (1). pp. 58-69.
Abstract
This short piece will highlight the importance of the newspaper in the nineteenth century as a historical source for examining the public perception of the barrister. It will draw upon selected press extracts from nineteenth century newspapers to illustrate a sample of the differing representations of barristers in Victorian England. This piece will begin to analyse how these public portrayals of barristers created ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ of some of Victorian England’s most eminent and infamous legal minds and establish whether these ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ perpetuated historical cultural stereotypes of lawyers.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | press; barristers; public perception; nineteenth century; legal history; law and popular culture; heroes; villains |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2019 08:45 |
Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 08:45 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Plymouth |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142579 |