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Richard Rambuss

Autor de Closet Devotions

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Richard Rambuss is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Chair of the Department of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career and the editor of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw.

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This lengthy articles not only reviews Herrup's book: A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, but makes responses to her points.

Rambuss seems to generally approve of Herrup as a historian, but there are more questions that he would have liked her to ask. Even given Herrup's refusal to give an opinion as to Castlehaven's guilt or innocence, Rambuss wishes her to have given more consideration to the possibility that he was innocent, and what sort of stories that might have given rise to. I am not certain that this is fair, since Herrup is recounting more the stories and myths that it DID give rise to, rather than interpreting his guilt or innocence. Her interpretations stick pretty close to what she thinks that the trial meant at the time, and then adds in later reactions. His own interpretation of the case is interesting and plausible, although problematic if he wishes to argue that Castlehaven was not guilty as charged. I think perhaps he wants to argue that at least the homoerotic elements of the accusations were true, while arguing that they should not have been a crime.

In discussing this issue, Rambuss, like many people, blurs the distinction between mistrials, innocence and a not-guilty verdict. A trial in the Anglo-American tradition never gives a verdict of "innocent", which would require shifting the burden of proof.

Rambuss rightly points out that this case is on a pressure point between gay and women's studies.

Very worth reading, as another voice weighing in on the case.
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