Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Law and Order, Moral Panics, and Early Modern England....Pages 1-21
The Concept of the Moral Panic: An Historico-Sociological Positioning....Pages 22-40
‘This Newe Army of Satan’: The Jesuit Mission and the Formation of Public Opinion in Elizabethan England....Pages 41-62
Cross-Dressing and Pamphleteering in Early Seventeenth-Century London....Pages 63-77
Fear Made Flesh: The English Witch-Panic of 1645–7....Pages 78-96
‘A sainct in shewe, a Devill in deede’: Moral Panics and Anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 97-116
‘Remember Justice Godfrey’: The Popish Plot and the Construction of Panic in Seventeenth-Century Media....Pages 117-138
The Dark Side of Enlightenment: The London Journal, Moral Panics, and the Law in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 139-156
Forgers and Forgery: Severity and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century England....Pages 157-175
‘How frail are Lovers vows, and Dicers oaths’: Gaming, Governing and Moral Panic in Britain, 1781–1782....Pages 176-194
A Moral Panic in Eighteenth-Century London? The ‘Monster’ and the Press....Pages 195-220
The British Jacobins: Folk Devils in the Age of Counter-Revolution?....Pages 221-244
Conclusion: Moral Panics, Law and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England....Pages 245-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-279