Fiction and the law : legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature /

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Author / Creator:	Dolin, Kieran.
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:	vii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Legal stories, English -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Law and literature -- History -- 19th century. Law and literature -- History -- 20th century. Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain. English fiction. Law and literature. Legal stories, English. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3911963

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ISBN:	0521623324 (hc. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-228) and index.

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

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