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Fiction and the law : legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature
- Title
- Fiction and the law : legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature / Kieran Dolin.
- Author
- Dolin, Kieran.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- vii,234 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-228) and index.
- Contents
- Narrative forms and normative worlds -- The modern western nomos -- True testimony and the foundation of nomos: The heart of Midlothian -- Reformist critique in the mid-Victorian "legal novel": Bleak House -- Representation, inheritance and anti-reformism in the "legal novel": Orley Farm -- Power, chance and the rule of law: Billy Budd, sailor -- From sympathetic criminal to imperial law-giver: Lord Jim -- Freedom, uncertainty and diversity: the critique of imperialist law in A passage to India -- Settling out of court.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-1176
- ISBN
- 0521623324 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98038602
- OCLC
- 39672100
- Author
- Dolin, Kieran.
- Title
- Fiction and the law : legal discourse in Victorian and modernist literature / Kieran Dolin.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-228) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-1176