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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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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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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.

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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