Fiction and the law : legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature /
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Author / Creator: | Dolin, Kieran. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
Description: | vii, 234 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3911963 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Narrative forms and normative worlds
- 2. The modern western Nomos
- 3. True testimony and the foundation of Nomos: The Heart of Midlothian
- 4. Reformist critique in the mid-Victorian 'legal novel': Bleak House
- 5. Representation, inheritance and Anti-Reformism, in the 'legal novel': Orley Farm
- 6. Power, chnace and the rule of law: Billy Budd, Sailor
- 7. From sympathetic criminal to imperial law-giver: Lord Jim
- 8. Freedom, uncertainty and diversity: the critique of imperialist law in A Passage to India
- 9. Settling out of court