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Autore |
Heinzelman Susan Sage |
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Titolo |
Riding the black ram [[electronic resource] ] : law, literature, and gender / / Susan Sage Heinzelman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Law Books, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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The cultural lives of law |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - History and criticism |
Law and literature - England - History |
Law in literature |
Women and literature - England - History |
Women in literature |
Women - Legal status, laws, etc - England - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. "Termes Queinte of Lawe" and Quaint Fantasies of Literature: Chaucer's Man of Law and Wife of Bath; 2. Public Affairs and Juridical Intimacies: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French and English Women Novelists; 3. Black Letters and Black Rams: Law, Gender, and the Novel in Early Eighteenth-Century England; 4. How to Tell a Story That Might Prevent a Hanging: Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752; 5. Statues, Statutes, and Queens on Trial; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Riding the Black Ram demonstrates how, despite the changing nature of the relationship between law and literature, gender stereotypes regarding the figure of the unruly woman persist. |
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