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Edward Lloyd's Sunday Newspapers and the Cultural Politics of Crime News, c. 1840–43
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, Number 3, Fall 2017
- pp. 619-649
- 10.1353/vpr.2017.0043
- Article
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Abstract
During the 1840s, the crime news in Edward Lloyd's cheap Sunday newspapers artfully manipulated standard narrative conventions so as to foreground the tension between the expansion of Britain's criminal justice system by the Metropolitan Police Acts and the traditional right of Britons to live "free-born." Whether Lloyd's crime news was fictional or factual or was published in unstamped or stamped Sunday papers, it consistently articulated a libertarian sympathy for those who were arrested and incarcerated, thus signaling its strong affinities with the radical politics of the time.
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