TY - BOOK ID - 2731135 TI - Fiction and the law PY - 1999 SN - 0521623324 0521100313 0511549342 9780521623322 9780511549342 9780521100311 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Law and literature KW - Legal stories, English KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - English fiction KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Legal stories [English ] KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Great Britain KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Law and literature - History - 19th century KW - Legal stories, English - History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain KW - Law and literature - History - 20th century KW - English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism KW - English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature and law KW - English legal stories UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2731135 AB - Law and literature have been two of the most powerful discourses in the construction of social reality. The relationship between the two has emerged as a vital area of study, as literary representation has proved immensely influential in framing popular understanding of law. In Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature Kieran Dolin examines the dialectical interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster, the period when the institution of the law was undergoing radical reform and the novel was at the peak of its cultural power. Dolin's comprehensive study argues that this cultural power is attributable in part to the novel's critical engagement with the law. His study draws on legal and literary theory to trace this important convergence of disciplines in a series of canonical Victorian and Modernist texts. ER -