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Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796
Imagining the King's Death Figurative Treason Fantasies of Regicide 17931796
Author: 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 des...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198112921
ISBN-10: 0198112920
Publication Date: 5/8/2000
Pages: 737
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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