Trials of the Self - (Studies in Early Modern European History) by Elwin Hofman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate <i>Trials of the self</i>, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites, but also for common people.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statements, </p><p><em>Trials of the self </em>shows that an increasing stress on psychological depth in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not only important for elites, but also for common and illiterate people - sometimes even more so.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Elwin Hofman is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders, KU Leuven
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