Staging the Trials of Modernism

Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness

Dale Barleben (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0107-5 (ISBN)

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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the literature, authors, media, and judicial procedure of the time, Barleben illuminates the somewhat macabre element of modern British trial process, which still enacts and re-enacts itself throughout contemporary judicial systems of the British Commonwealth.

Using little seen legal documents, like Ford's contempt trial decision, Staging the Trials of Modernism uncovers the conversations between the interior style of British Modern authors and the ways in which law began rethinking concepts like intent and the subconscious. Barleben’s fresh insights offer a nuanced look into the ways in which law influences literary production.

Dale Barleben is Assistant Professor of Law and Literature at John Jay College, City University of New York

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject

Chapter 1 – Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer’s Charter and Oscar Wilde’s Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism

Chapter 2 – Law’s Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad

Chapter 3 – High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce

Chapter 4 – Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity

Works Consulted

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2017
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-0107-2 / 1487501072
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0107-5 / 9781487501075
Zustand	Neuware