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Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,397
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Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature (Hardcover): Cathrine O. Frank

Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature (Hardcover)

Cathrine O. Frank

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities

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Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his preoccupation throughout his novels with libel? Drawing on a range of primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law, and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession. She explores how key categories and representational strategies for imagining individual personhood also defined communities and mediated relations within them, in life and in fiction. This book offers new readings of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. It analyses their literary constructions of character in relation to specific legal cases and doctrines, including the right to silence, libel and privacy.

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Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
Release date: 2022
Authors: Cathrine O. Frank
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-8570-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
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LSN: 1-4744-8570-7
Barcode: 9781474485708

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