The crime in mind [[electronic resource] ] : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel / / Lisa Rodensky

• Autore: Rodensky Lisa
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.809355
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Crime in literature; Legal stories, English - History and criticism; Law and literature - History - 19th century; Criminal liability in literature; Responsibility in literature; Criminals in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
• Titolo autorizzato: The crime in mind
• ISBN: 0-19-772359-4; 9786610482214; 1-4294-1518-5; 1-280-83558-3; 1-280-48221-4; 0-19-803435-0; 0-19-518524-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825737403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II