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Autore: | Heinzelman Susan Sage |
Titolo: | Riding the black ram [[electronic resource] ] : law, literature, and gender / / Susan Sage Heinzelman |
Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Law Books, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823.009/3554 |
823.0093554 | |
Soggetto topico: | English fiction - History and criticism |
Law and literature - England - History | |
Law in literature | |
Women and literature - England - History | |
Women in literature | |
Women - Legal status, laws, etc - England - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. "Termes Queinte of Lawe" and Quaint Fantasies of Literature: Chaucer's Man of Law and Wife of Bath; 2. Public Affairs and Juridical Intimacies: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French and English Women Novelists; 3. Black Letters and Black Rams: Law, Gender, and the Novel in Early Eighteenth-Century England; 4. How to Tell a Story That Might Prevent a Hanging: Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752; 5. Statues, Statutes, and Queens on Trial; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Riding the Black Ram demonstrates how, despite the changing nature of the relationship between law and literature, gender stereotypes regarding the figure of the unruly woman persist. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Riding the black ram |
ISBN: | 0-8047-7368-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458223903321 |
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