عنوان

Reconstituting authority :

(Number (ISBN

0877457360 (acid-free paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780877457367 (acid-free paper)

Number

b417534

Title Proper

Reconstituting authority :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

American fiction in the province of the law, 1880-1920 /

First Statement of Responsibility

William E. Moddelmog.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Iowa City :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Iowa Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2000.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 276 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.

Text of Note

"In Reconstituting Authority, William Moddelmog explores the ways in which American law and literature converged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through close readings of significant texts from the era, he reveals not only how novelists invoked specific legal principles and ideals in their fictions but also how they sought to reconceptualize the boundaries of law and literature in ways that transformed previous versions of both legal and literary authority." "Moddelmog does not assume a sharp distinction between literary and legal institutions and practices but shows how writers imagined the two fields as engaged in the same cultural process. He argues that because the law was instrumental in setting the terms by which concepts such as race, gender, nationhood, ownership, and citizenship were defined in the nineteenth century, authors challenging those definitions had to engage the law on its own terrain: to place their work in a dialogue with the law by telling stories that were already authorized (though perhaps suppressed) by legal institutions."--BOOK JACKET.

Title

Reconstituting authority.

American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Authority in literature.

Law and literature-- History-- 19th century.

Law and literature-- History-- 20th century.

Law in literature.

Legal stories, American-- History and criticism.

Class number

Book number

Moddelmog, William E.,1961-

Date of Transaction

20140220044424.0

Electronic name

[Book]

Y