LEADER 03291nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910819828003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-337-4 035 $a(CKB)111056486862704 035 $a(EBL)837070 035 $a(OCoLC)50321017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233987 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202692 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233987 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234883 035 $a(PQKB)11234344 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12503 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837070 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837070 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486862704 100 $a20000602d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReconstituting authority$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican fiction in the province of the law, 1880-1920 /$fWilliam E. Moddelmog 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-736-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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; Index 330 $aIn 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 606 $aLegal stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAuthority in literature 606 $aLaw in literature 615 0$aLegal stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 676 $a813.409355 676 $a813/.409355 700 $aModdelmog$b William E.$f1961-$01605313 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819828003321 996 $aReconstituting authority$93930485 997 $aUNINA