Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy / / Christine L. Krueger
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| Autore: |
Krueger Christine L
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| Titolo: |
Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy / / Christine L. Krueger
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.009/3554 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - History and criticism |
| Legal stories, English - History and criticism | |
| Law and literature - Great Britain - History | |
| Law in literature | |
| Female offenders in literature | |
| Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain - History | |
| Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Great Britain - History | |
| Feminist jurisprudence - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists' aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading for the law |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49069-1 |
| 9786613585929 | |
| 0-8139-2897-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827727003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Victorian literature and culture series.