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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: Law and Order, Moral Panics, and Early Modern England; D.Lemmings - The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning; D.Rowe - 'This Newe Army of Satan': The Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion in Elizabethan England; A.Walsham - Cross-dressing and Pamphleteering in Early Seventeenth-century London; A.Bayman - Fear made Flesh: The English Witch Panic of 1645-47; M.Gaskill - 'A sainct in shewe, a Devill in deede': Moral Panics and Anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-century England; T.Harris - 'Remember Justice Godfrey': The Popish Plot and the Construction of Panic in Seventeenth-century Media; C.Walker - The Dark Side of Enlightenment: The London Journal, Moral Panics and the Law in the Eighteenth Century; D.Lemmings - Forgers and Forgery: Severity and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Justice; R.McGowen - 'How frail are Lovers vows, and Dicers oaths': Gaming, Governing and Moral Panic in Britain, 1781-1782; D.Andrew - A Moral Panic in London, c. 1790: 'The Monster' and the Press; C.McCreery - The British Jacobins: Folk devils in the Age of Counter-Revolution?; M.Davis - Conclusion: Moral Panics, Law and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England; D.Lemmings– Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52732-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés