Contents;
List of Figures;
Notes on Contributors;
Acknowledgments;
Introduction;
PART I: The Judgment of the Law;
1. Cartes de visite and the First Mass Media Photographic Images of the English Judiciary: Continuity and Change
Leslie J. Moran;
2. Sir Redmond Barry and the Trial of Ned Kelly: representing the Judge and Judgment in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Alice Richardson;
3. The Emotional Reactions of Judges in Cases of Maternal Child Murder in England, 1840 -1900
Alison Pedley;
4. 'What Will Most Tend Towards Morality': Sir Cresswell Cresswell and the Divorce Court, 1858-1863
Gail Savage;
5. 'Infamous Falsehoods': Judges, Perjury, and Affiliation Trials in England, 1855-1930
Ginger Frost;
6. Authoritative Judgments in a Provincial Town: Responses to Everyday Offending in Plymouth 1860 - 1900
Kim Stevenson and Iain Channing;
PART II: Judgments in Culture;
7. Judging the Judges: The Image of the Judge in the Popular Illustrated Press
Craig Newbery-Jones;
8. The Matter of Judgment: Comparing Gendered Perspectives on Victorian Legal Culture in Popular Literature
Judith Rowbotham;
9. The Operation and Representation of Art Judgment
James Gregory;
10. Judging by the Hand: Handwriting and Character in Victorian Literary Culture
Karin Koehler;
11. 'They will not read it, but their sons & daughters may': judging Percy Shelley's Queen Mab (1813) in the nineteenth century
Cian Duffy;
Index