legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature /
Kieran Dolin.
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
vii, 234 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index.
Narrative forms and normative worlds -- The modern western nomos -- True testimony and the foundation of nomos: The heart of Midlothian -- Reformist critique in the mid-Victorian "legal novel": Bleak House -- Representation, inheritance and anti-reformism in the "legal novel": Orley Farm -- Power, chance and the rule of law: Billy Budd, sailor -- From sympathetic criminal to imperial law-giver: Lord Jim -- Freedom, uncertainty and diversity: the critique of imperialist law in A passage to India -- Settling out of court.
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This work explores the relationship between law and literature in canonical texts from Victorian and Modernist periods.
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.