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Kelly (history, Dublin City U., Ireland) presents some 100 of the extant published speeches delivered by condemned men and women as they face their impending deaths by hanging. Although the speeches are not annotated (being, often, the only known primary source of the incidents), Kelly does a provid Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)825.50809206927Literature English & Old English literatures English speeches Queen Anne Early 18th century 1702–45Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Rather a gruesome topic for a book, but a fascinating one all the same. Kelly examines the custom of issuing broadsides—sheets of paper printed on one side only, forming one large page—on behalf of the condemned criminal, allowing them a chance to address the public before they died. They range from the very short (one hundred words) to the very long (four thousand plus), but all of them contain the same basic elements: a life history, an account of their crimes or an assertion of innocence, and an exhortation from "good Christians" to learn from their example, and to pray for their souls. The issuing of broadsides provide a fascinating glimpse at how public executions were used as a means of social control in early eighteenth century Ireland, at social literacy, and at the evidently burgeoning (and cut-throat) publishing business in Dublin.
A fascinating little work of quirky history; if you have any interest in the topic at all, it's well worth picking up. It's from Four Courts Press, so I doubt those of you outside Ireland would be able to get your hands on a copy, but I've seen quite a few copies of it on remainder in Chapters in Dublin, et al. ( )