- Description
- 1 online resource ([xiii], 301 p.)
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Reading for the law (Online)
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Alternative Title
- Reading for the law (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009032569
- OCLC
- ssj0000566625
- Author
Krueger, Christine L.
- Title
Reading for the law [electronic resource] : British literary history and gender advocacy / Christine L. Krueger.
- Imprint
Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Series
Victorian literature and culture series
Victorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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