Mary Carleton

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The Carleton Bigamy Trial: Volume 97Paperback, 21 April 2023

The Carleton Bigamy Trial: Volume 97
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Part of Series
Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto
Print Length
394 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Iter Press
Date Published
21 Apr 2023
ISBN-10
164959075X
ISBN-13
9781649590756

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.

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Author:
Mary Carleton
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 April 2023
ISBN-10:
164959075X
ISBN-13:
9781649590756
Language:
English
Pages:
394
Publisher:

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