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This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.

English fiction --- Crime in literature. --- Legal stories, English --- Law and literature --- Criminal liability in literature. --- Responsibility in literature. --- Criminals in literature. --- Responsibility as a theme in literature --- Literature and law --- Literature --- English legal stories --- History and criticism. --- History

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The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

Equity --- Law and literature --- Legal stories, English --- Ethics in literature --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- English fiction --- History --- History and criticism --- Discourse analysis, Literary. --- Ethics in literature. --- Law and literature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Chancery --- Actions and defenses --- Trusts and trustees --- Literature and law --- English legal stories --- Law and legislation --- Equity - Great Britain - History --- Legal stories, English - History and criticism --- English fiction - History and criticism

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The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists' aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.

Feminist jurisprudence --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women --- Female offenders in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Law and literature --- Legal stories, English --- English literature --- Feminism, Legal --- Legal feminism --- Feminist theory --- Jurisprudence --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literature and law --- Literature --- English legal stories --- English fiction --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History and criticism.