Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796

by John Barrell

It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112920
• ISBN13: 9780198112921
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 760 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"