John Jervis

Great Britain. Court of Exchequer

Edward Younge

At Law, in Equity, and in Error, from Michaelmas Term, 7 Geo. IV. to [Hilary Term, 10 & 11 Geo. IV.] ... Both Inclusive [1826-1830] : with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber

At Law, in Equity, and in Error, from Michaelmas Term, 7 Geo. IV. to [Hilary Term, 10 & 11 Geo. IV.] ... Both Inclusive. [1826-1830]

John Frederick Archbold

With Precedents of Indictments, &c., and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them

Archbold's Summary of the Law Relative to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases

Sir Charles John Crompton

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber, from Easter Term, 11 Geo. IV., to Trinity Term-[2 Will. IV] Both Inclusive [1820-32]

From Easter Term, II Geo. IV. to [Trinity Term, 2 Will. IV.] ... Both Inclusive [1830-1832]

All the New Rules, from Mich. term 1 W. IV. to Hil. Vacation, 2 Vict.: and an appendix of statutes of general reference in relation to pleading and practice; with notes. Fourth edition. [Edited] By J. J.

Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a culture of feeling that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which sentiments are frequently denounced for being sentimental and self-indulgent. These tensions are traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive 'spectacle of sympathy', in which sympathy entails public forms of expression whereby being on show is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated. This, John Jervis suggests, is at the root of a range of controversies central to modern life, art and culture, including contemporary debates around trauma and compassion fatigue. Connected to these debates is the issue of modern sensationalism, discussed here and elaborated in a companion volume: Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World, which is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.

Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

Sympathetic Sentiments

With the Statutes, Precedents of Indictments, &c., and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them

Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world. A companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.

The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World

Sensational Subjects

William Feilden Craies

Archbold's Pleading, Evidence & Practice in Criminal Cases

Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as ‘modern’ (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in the name of a fluid, unsettled, unsettling modernism. As the offspring of the Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility, modernity is framed here through a cultural aesthetics that highlights not just an instrumental, exploitative approach to the world but the distinctive configuration of embodiment, feeling, and imagination, that we refer to as ‘civilization’, in turn both explored and subverted through modernist experimentalism and reflexive thinking in culture and the arts. This discloses the rationalizing pretensions that underlie the modern project and have resulted in the sensationalist, melodramatic conflicts of good and evil that traverse our contemporary world of politics and popular culture alike. This innovative approach permits modernity theory to link otherwise fragmented insights of separate humanities disciplines, aspects of sociology, and cultural studies, by identifying and contributing to a central strand of modern thought running from Kant through Benjamin to the present. One aspect of modernity theory that results is that it cannot escape the paradoxes inherent in reflexive involvement in its own history.

Modern Experience, Modernist Consciousness, Reflexive Thinking

Modernity Theory

By John Jervis. By William Bruce

Archbold's Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases; with the Statutes, Precedents of Indictments & c. and the Evidence necessary to support them

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries.

Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization

Exploring the Modern

Archbold's Summary of the Law Relating to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases

John Jervis

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