TY - BOOK ID - 85796672 TI - Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination PY - 2021 SN - 1108938280 1108944590 1108950744 1108837484 1108942350 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Law and literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Great Britain. KW - Administration of justice KW - Law KW - Courts KW - Literature and law KW - Literature KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Law and legislation KW - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Great Britain) KW - Court of Appeals from the Plantations (Great Britain) KW - JCPC KW - Caribbean Court of Justice UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85796672 AB - Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena. ER -