Trials of the self

Trials of the selfDuellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites, but also for common people.

interviews with crime writers Leigh Redhead

A broad reading of the period’s rich trove of funeral elegies

Jacques Derrida

Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious

she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived experience of illness alongside an examination of how language and cultural constructions influence and represent this experience in a variety of forms

catalyze explorations of the literary

arguing that – notwithstanding ongoing proposals to significantly reform ‘Scots contract law’ –  Stair’s account of ‘will’ and ‘engagement’ offers the better route forward for legal development in this area

to explore how revolutionary art

La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play

it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy

Ron Athey is one of the most important

nurtured and remunerated