02962nam 2200721Ia 450 991079135030332120230725015426.00-8047-7368-810.1515/9780804773683(CKB)2560000000011475(EBL)537856(OCoLC)638861389(SSID)ssj0000427277(PQKBManifestationID)12130146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427277(PQKBWorkID)10391197(PQKB)11338730(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127813(MiAaPQ)EBC537856(DE-B1597)564449(DE-B1597)9780804773683(Au-PeEL)EBL537856(CaPaEBR)ebr10389808(OCoLC)1198930546(EXLCZ)99256000000001147520090826d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRiding the black ram[electronic resource] law, literature, and gender /Susan Sage HeinzelmanStanford, Calif. Stanford Law Booksc20101 online resource (201 p.)The cultural lives of lawDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-5680-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexRiding 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.Cultural lives of law.English fictionHistory and criticismLaw and literatureEnglandHistoryLaw in literatureWomen and literatureEnglandHistoryWomen in literatureWomenLegal status, laws, etcEnglandHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Law and literatureHistory.Law in literature.Women and literatureHistory.Women in literature.WomenLegal status, laws, etc.History.823.009/3554823.0093554Heinzelman Susan Sage1581196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791350303321Riding the black ram3862596UNINA