Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature
Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8571-5 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8571-5 (ISBN)
Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.
Examines legal and literary narratives of personhood in the 19th century
Traces the concept of character through related areas of law, cultural discourses of character and the formal structures of the novel
Offers new readings of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle
Analyses literary constructions of character in relation to specific legal cases and doctrines, including the right to silence, libel and privacy
Includes new work on Anthony Trollope's topical and editorial interest in libel
Covers the relationship between libel, the development of privacy rights and emerging modernist aesthetics
Presents a transatlantic approach to select works and issues, including the right to silence and privacy
Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his preoccupation throughout his novels with libel?
Drawing on a range of primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law, and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession. She explores how key categories and representational strategies for imagining individual personhood also defined communities and mediated relations within them, in life and in fiction.
Examines legal and literary narratives of personhood in the 19th century
Traces the concept of character through related areas of law, cultural discourses of character and the formal structures of the novel
Offers new readings of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle
Analyses literary constructions of character in relation to specific legal cases and doctrines, including the right to silence, libel and privacy
Includes new work on Anthony Trollope's topical and editorial interest in libel
Covers the relationship between libel, the development of privacy rights and emerging modernist aesthetics
Presents a transatlantic approach to select works and issues, including the right to silence and privacy
Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his preoccupation throughout his novels with libel?
Drawing on a range of primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law, and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession. She explores how key categories and representational strategies for imagining individual personhood also defined communities and mediated relations within them, in life and in fiction.
Cathrine O. Frank is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities major, University of New England, Maine, USA
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8571-5 / 1474485715 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8571-5 / 9781474485715 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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