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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