The Dreadful Word

The Dreadful Word
Author: Kristin A. Olbertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009116533

The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of politeness. This work is the first of its kind and will be of interest to history and law scholars.

The Dreadful Word

The Dreadful Word
Author: Kristin A. Olbertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 100909890X

A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1889
Genre:
ISBN: