Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Part I: Discerning Principles Introduction to Part I: Discerning Principles, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt; 1. Law, Religion and Changing Ideas of Innocence in Romantic Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm 2. Adam Smith on Resentment and Retribution, Victoria Myers 3. Indianism and the Last Performance of Edmund Burke, Padma Rangarajan 4. The Trial of Queen Caroline: Radical Spectacle, Caricature and the Triumph of Public Opinion in the Shadow of the Six Acts, Ian Haywood 5. Legal Vengeance and Popular Violence: Reimagining Justice in The Heart of Midlothian, Melissa J. Ganz Part II: Refining Standards Introduction to Part II: Refining Standards, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt 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', Leith Davis 7.
Jews Performing Remorse: The Trials and Tribulations of John 'Jew' King and His Daughters, Michael Scrivener 8. Fugitive Morality in Two Scots Poets: Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson and the Law, Gerard Carruthers and Moira Hansen 9. 'The Past is Irrevocable': Justice, Punishment and Irish Romantic Writing, James Kelly 10. Flogging Phelim: Christian Isobel Johnstone, the Perils of Injustice and the Promise of Reform, Elizabeth Kraft Part III: Affirming Resistances Introduction to Part III: Affirming Resistances, Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt 11. Reparatory Justice and the Afterlives of Slavery in Twenty-first-century Creative Rememberings of Mary Prince, Sue Thomas 12. John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification, Timothy Clark 13. Prison Hulks in Romantic Seascapes, Michael Demson Index.