03883nam 2200757 a 450 991081334460332120200520144314.01-107-11749-60-521-12680-01-280-15452-70-511-11775-20-511-14986-70-511-30301-70-511-48526-30-511-04827-0(CKB)111004366731762(EBL)144710(OCoLC)475870933(SSID)ssj0000193131(PQKBManifestationID)11172836(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193131(PQKBWorkID)10217609(PQKB)11344968(UkCbUP)CR9780511485268(MiAaPQ)EBC144710(Au-PeEL)EBL144710(CaPaEBR)ebr10014999(CaONFJC)MIL15452(EXLCZ)9911100436673176219981022d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterature and legal discourse equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /Dieter Paul Polloczek1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (viii, 269 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-511-00624-1 0-521-65251-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-263) and index.1.Introduction --2.Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels --3.Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules --4.Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House --5.A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" --6.Conclusion.The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.Legal stories, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticismEquityGreat BritainHistoryDiscourse analysis, LiteraryEthics in literatureLaw and literatureLegal stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.EquityHistory.Discourse analysis, Literary.Ethics in literature.Law and literature.823.009/355Polloczek Dieter1698863MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813344603321Literature and legal discourse4080654UNINA