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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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In a new interpretation of the fiction of Anthony Trollope, Coral Lansbury argues that Trollope's work in the Post Office, starting in 1834, had more influence on his fiction than did any literary figure or tradition. Drawing on her original research in Post Office Records, she reveals the ways in which legal forms and legal reasoning shape both the language and the structure of Trollope's published work.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Legal stories, English --- Law in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English legal stories --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- Law in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Trollope, Anthony, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Law.
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Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, along with a reading of the new Royal Courts of Justice, Grossman charts the exciting changes occurring within the novel, especially crime fiction, that preceded and led to the invention of the detective mystery in the 1840s.
Legal stories, English --- English fiction --- Courts in literature. --- Law and literature. --- Law in literature. --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Literature and law --- English legal stories --- History and criticism.
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Explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promise--as speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and topos--lies at the intersection of several emergent nineteenth-century discourses: the science of language (notably etymology and philology), utilitarian jurisprudence (especially the freedom of contract applied to personal relations), and the aesthetics of the novel (predominantly realism).With this in mind, Craig offers new readings of several classic Victorian novels, including Pickwick Papers, Jane Eyre, Adam Bede, The Egoist, and The Wings of the Dove. [publisher's description]
English fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Betrothal --- Law and legislation --- Great Britain --- History --- Legal stories [English ] --- Love stories [English ] --- Betrothal in literature --- Courtship in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Promises in literature --- Betrothal - Law and legislation - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Betrothal in literature. --- Legal stories, English --- Love stories, English --- English romance fiction --- English legal stories --- Engagement --- Marriage, Promise of --- Contracts --- Courtship --- Marriage
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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.
Law and literature --- Legal stories, English --- Modernism (Literature) --- English fiction --- History --- History and criticism --- Legal stories [English ] --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Great Britain --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Law and literature - History - 19th century --- Legal stories, English - History and criticism --- Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain --- Law and literature - History - 20th century --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Literature and law --- English legal stories
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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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Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy's role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.
Legal stories --- History and criticism. --- Hardy, Thomas, --- Author of Desperate remedies, --- Author of Under the greenwood tree, --- Desperate remedies, Author of, --- Gardi, Tomas, --- Ha-tai, --- Ha-tai, Tʻo-ma-ssu, --- Hārdī, Tūmās, --- Hardy, Tomás, --- Hardy, Tomasz, --- Khardi, Tomas, --- Under the greenwood tree, Author of, --- 哈代托瑪斯, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Legal stories, English --- Law in literature. --- Lawyers in literature. --- Knowledge --- Law. --- English legal stories --- English fiction --- Hārḍī, Thômasa,
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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.
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Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adultery—indeed, of all explicit representations of sexuality—in turn made censorship for obscene libel unnecessary. Very few writers, conventional wisdom has it, were bold enough to defy the powerful implicit constraints imposed upon literary production.If we find no English Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, Barbara Leckie nevertheless demonstrates that adultery preoccupied English culture during this period. After the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 was passed, adultery was prominently discussed in the Divorce Court. Transcriptions of divorce trials were an immensely popular front-page feature of almost all daily newspapers for more than fifty years. At the same time as narratives of adultery stood at the center of sensation novels such as Mary Elizabeth Bradden's The Doctor's Wife, literary reviews and cultural debates strongly encouraged serious novelists to avoid the topic. In Culture and Adultery, Leckie mines novels, newspapers, court and Parliamentary records to explore several related sets of issues. How, first, did adultery become "visible" in the public sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century? Why, conversely, has the discursive history of adultery been deemphasized in the English critical tradition? And how is the history of the Victorian and early twentieth-century English novel revised when the culture's concern with adultery and censorship are reintroduced?
English fiction --- Adultery in literature --- Adultery --- Legal stories, English --- Law and literature --- American fiction --- Journalism --- Sensationalism in literature --- History and criticism --- Public opinion --- History --- English legal stories --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Writing (Authorship) --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Adulterous relationships --- Cheating, Marital --- Extra-marital sex --- Extramarital sex --- Infidelity, Marital --- Marital cheating --- Marital infidelity --- Marriage --- Sex crimes --- Paramours --- Sensationalism in literature. --- Adultery in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Public opinion. --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Adultery - English-speaking countries - Public opinion --- Legal stories, English - History and criticism --- Law and literature - History - 19th century --- Law and literature - History - 20th century --- American fiction - History and criticism --- Journalism - English-speaking countries
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Troubled Legacies thoroughly examines the connection between narrative and claims to legal entitlement, a topic that has not, to date, been comprehensively broached in literary studies.
English fiction --- Legal stories, English --- Law and literature --- Inheritance and succession in literature. --- Wills in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Literature and law --- Literature --- English legal stories --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales
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