The Carleton Bigamy Trial

Description

Product ID:	9781649590756
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Carleton Bigamy Trial
Authors:	Author: Mary Carleton, Megan Matchinske
Page Count:	394
Subjects:	Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women
Description:	Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventeenth-century England. Mary Carleton was an ordinary woman from Canterbury who entered historical records when she was accused of bigamy. The seven pamphlets in this edition focus on the bigamy trial of Mary Carleton, in which the accused eloquently defends herself and is ultimately acquitted. Written in the early years of the English Restoration, they demonstrate that narratives presenting what “she said” and what “he said” can reveal, forcefully and painfully, how truth can be fragmented in the different arenas of law, love, and politics. Through their disparate accounts of a marriage gone wrong, these pamphlets reinforce the social status quo even while they radically shatter the very foundations that give it heft. In asking readers to question absolutes, they unmask the precarious relationship between words and the world.
Imprint Name:	Iter Press
Publisher Name:	Iter Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2023-04-21

Weight	632 g
Dimensions	153 × 229 × 27 mm