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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783273803321

Autore

Rodensky Lisa

Titolo

The crime in mind [[electronic resource] ] : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel / / Lisa Rodensky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-19-772359-4

9786610482214

1-4294-1518-5

1-280-83558-3

1-280-48221-4

0-19-803435-0

0-19-518524-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809355

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Crime in literature

Legal stories, English - History and criticism

Law and literature - History - 19th century

Criminal liability in literature

Responsibility in literature

Criminals in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities.

Sommario/riassunto

This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.