03329nam 2200685Ia 450 991045615520332120200520144314.01-58729-337-4(CKB)111056486862704(EBL)837070(OCoLC)50321017(SSID)ssj0000233987(PQKBManifestationID)11202692(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233987(PQKBWorkID)10234883(PQKB)11234344(MiAaPQ)EBC837070(MdBmJHUP)muse12503(Au-PeEL)EBL837070(CaPaEBR)ebr10354614(EXLCZ)9911105648686270420000602d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReconstituting authority[electronic resource] American fiction in the province of the law, 1880-1920 /William E. ModdelmogIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20001 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-736-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction Professionalism in Law and Literature; Chapter 1 The "Official" Narratives of William Dean Howells; Chapter 2 Helen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood; Chapter 3 Narrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's ""Contending Forces""; Chapter 4 Charles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership; Chapter 5 Privacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's ""The House of Mirth""; Chapter 6 Theodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn 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 Legal stories, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLaw and literatureHistory19th centuryLaw and literatureHistory20th centuryAuthority in literatureLaw in literatureElectronic books.Legal stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Law and literatureHistoryLaw and literatureHistoryAuthority in literature.Law in literature.813.409355813/.409355Moddelmog William E.1961-1048932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456155203321Reconstituting authority2477553UNINA