Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Preface

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors and Co-Editors

pp x-xiv

Part I: Discerning Principles

pp 1-2

Introduction to Part I: Discerning Principles

pp 3-8

1 - Law, Religion and Changing Ideas of Innocence in Romantic Literature

pp 9-27

2 - Adam Smith on Resentment and Retribution

pp 28-46

3 - Indianism and the Last Performance of Edmund Burke

pp 47-64

4 - The Trial of Queen Caroline: Radical Spectacle, Caricature and the Triumph of Public Opinion in the Shadow of the Six Acts

pp 65-85

5 - Legal Vengeance and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian

pp 86-104

Part II: Refining Standards

pp 105-106

Introduction to Part II: Refining Standards

pp 107-112

6 - Rehabilitating Jacobites in Romantic-Era Britain: The Cultural Memory of the 1745 Rising in Thomas Campbell’s ‘Lochiel’s Warning’ and Anne Grant’s ‘The Highlanders’

pp 113-132

7 - Jews Performing Remorse: The Trials and Tribulations of John ‘Jew’ King and His Daughters

pp 133-151

8 - Fugitive Morality in Two Scots Poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the Law

pp 152-171

9 - ‘The Past is Irrevocable’: Justice, Punishment and Irish Romantic Writing

pp 172-191

10 - Flogging Phelim: Christian Isobel Johnstone, the Perils of Injustice and the Promise of Reform

pp 192-210

Part III: Affirming Resistances

pp 211-212

Introduction to Part III: Affirming Resistances

pp 213-218

11 - Reparatory Justice and the Afterlives of Slavery in Twenty- First-Century Creative Rememberings of Mary Prince

pp 219-237

12 - John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification

pp 238-257

13 - Prison Hulks in Romantic Seascapes

pp 258-280

Index

pp 281-295