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Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy / / Christine L. Krueger



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Autore: Krueger Christine L Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy / / Christine L. Krueger Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49069-1
9786613585929
0-8139-2897-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827727003321
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Serie: Victorian literature and culture series.