The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1963
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350142466
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350142435
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The first detailed examination of the modern British monarch from the perspective of mercy, this study focuses on Victoria after surveying the "long eighteenth century". Contextualized by constitutional discourse and judicial practice, chapters explore Victoria's relationship to Home Office and capital punishment as documented in correspondence in the royal archives, and the domestic and wider British world through mercy after rebellion and assassination attempts. It studies anti-slavery's strategic use of gendered royal mercy and colonial debates on the royal prerogative. Based on exhaustive archival research, it analyses representation of the merciful female monarch, incorporating sculpture, literary fictions and newspaper anecdote.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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